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ESLBeginner Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

'have been shot' and 'was shot'

Hello, if someone was shot at and is now lying down there waiting for rescue, is this guy 'has been shot' or 'was shot' ? which tense is right? thanks.
  

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Hi, 'has been shot'. Clive

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Hi,



'has been shot'.



Clive
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I don't think either is necessarily wrong, ESL. It depends on the context of the utterance, not on your extra-contextual description of the situation. Both of these are perfectly OK and perfectly possible:

Q: What happened to that guy down there?
A: He was shot! (A simple-past-tense answer to the simple-past-tense question: statement of past fact.)

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