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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Has have been?

Can I say something like this?

Russia has have been attacked by Franco-English alliance before.

Or

Russia has had been attacked by Franco-English alliance before.

Or I have no other choice then Present Perfect or Past Simple

Russia has been attacked...
Russia was attacked.....
  

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Anonymous Russia has have been attacked by Franco-English alliance before . Anonymous Russia has had been attacked by Franco-English alliance before. As shown.

  • Anonymous Russia has have been attacked by Franco-English alliance before .
  • Anonymous Russia has had been attacked by Franco-English alliance before.
  • As shown.
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AnonymousRussia has have been attacked by Franco-English alliance before.
AnonymousRussia has had been attacked by Franco-English alliance before.
As shown.
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AnonymousCan I say something like this?
No. "has have" and "have has" are invalid verb phrases.

Here are some choices:
Russia has been attacked by the Franco-English alliance before. (present perfect)
Russia had been attacked by the Franco-English alliance before. (Past perfect)
Russia was attacked by the Franc
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Hi. Thanks for the reply. I am the original poster. I was accidentally logged out as anonymous.

I have not mentioned "have has" in my example at all. First one was "has have", which has been established to be unusable.

The second was "has had".

I would like you to have a look at this link please....
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DaithyI would like you to have a look at this link please....
Why? Is there something there we need to look at particularly?
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From the link:

Now to the examples:
  1. I have had (eaten) my breakfast but I have not yet hadEmotion: drunk my coff
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In those examples, the word in brackets does not follow the 'had'; it is an alternative.

You can say, for example, I have had my breakfast or I have eaten my breakfast.

You cannot say I have had eaten my breakfast
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Fair enough. Thank you.
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And what about past simple + present perfect?

He was to have been....
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That's the past of the quasi-modal verb am/is/are/was/were to followed by a perfect infinitive. was to have been is not a single tense/aspect form.
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DaithyHe was to have been....
Note the infinitive marker "to."
Like the simple infinitive, the perfect infinitive can follow certain verbs. It is not part of the verb phrase, but a complement.

The wind seems to have died down for now, so we can go out.
Several thousand refugees are estimated to have reached Germany from S

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