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PreciousJones Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Raised.

I've been raised in Australia. ANd

I was raised in Australia.

Is there a difference between the two?

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The first one applies if you are still being raised.

— Mister Micawber

  • The first one applies if you are still being raised.
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The first one applies if you are still being raised.
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Mister MicawberThe first one applies if you are still being raised.
But doesn't have been raised also count as an experience?

Like:

I have been to Tokyo. Or

She has lived in Germany.

So I have been raised in Australia can't also be an account of experience?
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It sounds very odd here. The idea of 'experience' is not an automatic marker of present perfect, and I can hardly imagine that 'being raised' is considered an experience, either consciously or unconsciously. It is the sum of all your various experiences of youth.
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PreciousJonesI've been raised in Australia.
LOL! This one made me giddy thinking about it. It's actually very difficult (for me, anyway) to explain why it doesn't work.

I think it's because you can only have been raised once and it would have had to be during your own childhood, so the time period is fixed. The present perfect is not used when you
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Thanks for thinking that through for us, CJ!
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