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Lokon Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Never have been or Never had been?

If I want to express I never go to church, which do I use ?
I never have been to the church
I never had been to the church
If it's not correct, please correct me, and what's the difference bewteen these two ?
  

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With "have been" you mean you have never once in your life been to the church and it's true even now... " so this one is for something which doesn't applies to the present, but to a definite time in the past... " bye Andre

  • With "have been" you mean you have never once in your life been to the church and it's true even now...
  • " so this one is for something which doesn't applies to the present, but to a definite time in the past...
  • " bye Andre
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With "have been" you mean you have never once in your life been to the church and it's true even now...

With "had been" you are probably talking in a context in wich you are saying something like "until last year i had never been to the church..." so this one is for something which doesn't applies to the present, but to a definite time in the past...

also not sure but i think ne
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I have never been to church. This means that not once in my life I have entered a church
I had never been, seems incorrect, I have no knowledge if it can be written like this.
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Quote: If I want to express I never go to church, which do I use ?

If you have been to a church in the past at least once, you could say.

I do not go to church, ever. This means that in the present, and for an undefined period of time you have decided not to go to church indefinitely (ever)
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I have never been to ROM
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I never have been to church
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I have never been to church.

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Never have i been to church.

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