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LeGion12359 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Use of 'been' in English Grammar

Hello teachers,
Sentence:
"This has been a great week for me."

I just want to confirm that's why i am asking this question.Up to my knowledge, we use 'been' in a perfect continuous tense of active voice and in a perfect tense of passive voice. To me that this sentence is of the latter category which I defined above. Am I correct?
  

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Has been is active present perfect. CB

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  • Has been is active present perfect.
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Has been is active present perfect.

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@ Cool Breeze Don't we use 'been' in present perfect continuous of active voice instead of present perfect??
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Don't we use 'has been' in a perfect- continuous tense instead of in a perfect tense?
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Being is needed for a continuous present tense: A new house is being built in the neighbourhood.
Been is used in present perfect and past perfect: I have been here before. (I had been there before. The continuous present perfect of to be would be have/has been being but it is hardly ever used. CB
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LeGion12359Don't we use 'been' in present perfect continuous of active voice instead of present perfect??
With "be" as an auxiliary verb, yes, as in "I have been waiting". However, in your sentence "be" is the main verb.
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Thank you Cool Breeze and GPY, I got it :-)
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