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MIG Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

tense of "I had been"

Hi.

Please help me with the tense of the sentence below.

I had been under care in the past and I now have no more neck pain.

Use of "been" in the above sentence confuse me?
Is it a PP which functions as lexical verb?
  

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MIG Is it a PP which functions as lexical verb? Yes. I would say so, particularly since been is not followed by a past participle.

— CalifJim

  • MIG Is it a PP which functions as lexical verb?
  • Yes.
  • I would say so, particularly since been is not followed by a past participle.
  • This is the past perfect tense of be .
  • ________________________ Nevertheless, you should know that in some systems of grammatical analysis, the verb to be is forever denied the status of a lexical verb and is always considered an auxiliary verb no matter how it occurs.
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MIGIs it a PP which functions as lexical verb?
Yes. I would say so, particularly since been is not followed by a past participle. This is the past perfect tense of be.
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Nevertheless, you should know that in some systems of grammatical analysis, the verb to be is forever denied the status of a lexical
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Thank you very much CalifJim.
CalifJim Nevertheless, you should know that in some systems of grammatical analysis, the verb to be is forever denied the status of a lexical verb and is always considered an auxiliary verb no matter how it occurs.
It's a relief to know that it's not a strict rule because it would have been more confusi
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