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Rajiv Dixit Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Regarding the use of the present perfect tense
What tense is being used in the following sentences?
1) I have been here.
2)How often have you been in love in your life?
3)There has been an accident.
I think these sentences use the present perfect tense. My first question regarding the first example: Is been being used as a past particle or as a helping verb? If so, my second question is: What part of speech is hear?
By the way, I took my first two examples from Michael Swan's Practical English Usage, and the third from a book on grammar by Raymond Murph (all three are covered under "present perfect").
1) I have been here.
2)How often have you been in love in your life?
3)There has been an accident.
I think these sentences use the present perfect tense. My first question regarding the first example: Is been being used as a past particle or as a helping verb? If so, my second question is: What part of speech is hear?
By the way, I took my first two examples from Michael Swan's Practical English Usage, and the third from a book on grammar by Raymond Murph (all three are covered under "present perfect").
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rajiv Dixit I think these sentences use the present perfect tense. You are correct. rajiv Dixit My first question regarding the first example: Is been being used as a past particle or as a helping verb?
- rajiv Dixit I think these sentences use the present perfect tense.
- You are correct.
- rajiv Dixit My first question regarding the first example: Is been being used as a past particle or as a helping verb?
- " Be is the main verb in these sentences.
- " I am here.
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rajiv DixitI think these sentences use the present perfect tense.You are correct.
rajiv Dixit My first question regarding the first example: Is been being used as a past particle or as a helping verb?"Have/has been" is the present perfect tense of the verb "be." Be is the main verb in these sentences.
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In all three sentence, the verb is present perfect.
'Been' is the third form (past participle) of BE. all present perfect forms are constructed with the present tense of auxiliary HAVE and a third form.
'Been' is the third form (past participle) of BE. all present perfect forms are constructed with the present tense of auxiliary HAVE and a third form.
rajiv Dixit my second question is: What part of speech is hear?Here is an adverb/
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