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 #2 (permalink) Thu May 28, 2009 18:25 pm HI , Using Have been , has been sentenses |
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My wife has been to see the Doctor.
We have been there together.
I have been to Turkey.
My son has been to Greece.
They have been to the cinema.
My daughter has been to the dentist.
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 Kitosdad
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Jun 04, 2009 22:34 pm HI , Using Have been , has been sentenses |
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It should be:
My wife had been to see the Doctor. (Past perfect). or
My wife has gone to see the Doctor. (present perfect).
similarly:
I had been to Turkey.
Example:
I had been to London to visit the Queen.
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My son had been to Greece. or
My son has gone to visit Greece.
etc.
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Berlinder
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Mar 18, 2010 22:08 pm Using "have been" and "has been" sentenses |
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| I'm sorry, but why it can't be "My son has been to Greece."? |
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Katyufka
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Mar 18, 2010 23:30 pm Using "have been" and "has been" sentenses |
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It can be, Katyufka. "My son has been to Greece" is perfectly grammatical and natural.
I'm really not sure what Berlinder was trying to say. All of Kitosdad's sentences are natural and grammatical.
On the contrary, a past perfect sentence such as "My son had been to Greece" does not sound natural without additional context to justify the use of the past perfect.
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How can I to use has been and had been sentences in real conversaction? |
In everyday conversation, one of the more likely times you'll hear a past perfect form used is in a type 3 conditional sentence. For example:
- If I had studied harder for the test, my grade would have been better.
Or in a sentence with more than one clause, often in combination with the words before or after. For example:
- When I saw him at the party, I knew right away that I had met him before, but I couldn't remember his name.
('Had met' is something that happened further in the past than everything else in that sentence.)
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:24 am HI , Using Have been , has been sentenses |
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| thanks for this update :-) |
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