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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Have taken/Have been taking?

I heard you've taken good care of her.

I heard you've been taking good care of her.

- Are both sentences natural?

- What's the difference?

- If there is a difference, are they often confused for each other in everyday speech?

  

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These are both okay, provided the context is right, for example: A: Hey, I hear you've got your mom living with you now. B: Yeah, she didn't like it in the nursing home. A: I heard you've taken/been taking good care of her.

— Anonymous

  • These are both okay, provided the context is right, for example: A: Hey, I hear you've got your mom living with you now.
  • B: Yeah, she didn't like it in the nursing home.
  • A: I heard you've taken/been taking good care of her.
  • (The meaning of both is the same.
  • If there's a difference, it's very subtle.
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These are both okay, provided the context is right, for example:


A: Hey, I hear you've got your mom living with you now.

B: Yeah, she didn't like it in the nursing home.

A: I heard you've taken/been taking good care of her. (The meaning of both is the same. If there's a difference, it's very subtle. The first one is more formal-sounding - A and B are probably not c

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anonymousI heard you've taken good care of her.

This suggests there was a period of time during which 'you' took good care of 'her'. The whole care-taking event came to an end, possibly in the recent past. For example, you are picking 'her' up after someone ('you') took care of 'her' for some time while you, her usual caretaker, were away.

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