2018年2月5日 · Present perfect have been is used for something that started in the past, continued to the present and either is still happening, or has some lasting effect: I have worked there for five years - and I still do. In your sentence, if the speaker had literally just finished working when the phone rang, either would be acceptable.

2021年10月25日 · They are both grammatical, and have a roughly similar meaning. The first is in the simple past tense, and refers to a situation of the past (i.e. definitely before the present moment) and without connection to the present (nothing is implied about what may be true now).

2015年5月17日 · The first sentence is purely hypothetical that nobody will ever know if what have been done is something that a father should be proud of while the second sentence is something that they have done to be proud of by any father but the thing is it will never happen because the father was not able to witness or see what they have done.

2012年8月9日 · @AndrewLeach Quite so. But, it doesn't really work as, "Have you often been in London?" or "Have you been in London often?". OTOH, "Have you been in London long?" sounds better. But it changes the meaning of the question quite markedly. The Q&A of "Have you ever been in London?" and "Yes, I've often been in London." also sounds odd. –

The file has been deleted (by somebody). We use the passive like this when we want to shift the focus of the sentence away from the doer of the action. Maybe we don't know who did the action, or it is obvious, or we don't care who did it.

2015年9月10日 · You can use have been when something has just recently ended. For instance, you would say: I'm exhausted because I've been in meetings all day. was would also be acceptable, but I don't think it's as common in this case. But if …

2016年12月21日 · Both forms express perfect aspect, that is to say they express a state resulting from an earlier event. The has/have been form is known as the present perfect and relates what has happened in the past to what is happening now. The had been form is known as the past perfect and pushes the events further back. It relates what happened at some ...

2017年7月7日 · Why has "to have been" been used in the following sentence? Can we replace it with "to be"? Would there be any change in the meaning if we change it to "to be"? Interview was at 10 am and I was not even interviewed even after 3 pm, Human resource team seems to have been employed right from a Govt office.

2016年5月1日 · "Has been" and "have been" are both in the present perfect tense. "Has been" is used in the third-person singular and "have been" is used for first- and second-person singular and all plural uses. The present perfect tense refers to an action that began at some time in the past and is still in progress.

2011年12月1日 · I would have had to have been and I would have had to be are alternatives, but have had already sets up the time reference, so the infinitive to be, rather than the perfect infinitive to have been is enough. Usage seems to confirm this. The British National Corpus has 15 records of would have had to have been and 45 of would have had to be. The ...