"HAVE BEEN" "HAS BEEN" or "HAD BEEN" - English Perfect Tenses - Advanced English Grammar Lesson

have had and has been... are you struggling to use the correct form when you're

speaking or writing in English?... In this video lesson we'll learn about the

difference between using have had and has been.... by looking at a few examples

and analyzing the use of these forms together! :)

Friends remember the best way to be learning grammar is in use! By seeing grammar being used you are able

to better understand the use of each grammatical structure and apply this to

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better communicate with Grammar! :) Let's begin this lesson by looking at to have

Looking at this sentence.... I have a new car... the verb have means to be in

possession of something... here the sentence uses the present simple and it

expresses the fact of having or possessing something in the present... now

we can also use the verb have as an auxiliary verb and we use it to form the

present perfect and present perfect continuous tense.... Have look at this

sentence... I have gone to that show already....here we can see the verb have is

being used as the auxiliary verb and here it's being used to form the present

perfect simple tense... as we already know we use the present perfect simple tense to

connect past actions to the present.... in this example the person, me, I went to the

show sometime in the past, and it is still valid in the present... let's have a

look at another sentence.... I've skipped breakfast and now I'm hungry... in this

sentence again have is being used as the auxiliary verb to form the present

perfect simple tense... Here it is used to express a finished action which has a

consequence on the present...So, because I didn't eat breakfast in the morning I

am now hungry... instead of saying I didn't eat breakfast... we can use have and form a

sentence using the present perfect simple saying I've skipped breakfast and

now I'm hungry.... have is also used in the English language to form the present

perfect continuous tense! Have a look at this sentence here... I've been going to

the same cafe for ten years...In this example we can see that the present perfect

continuous tense is being used and we're using the auxiliary verb have to form

this structure! In this sentence we can see that the present perfect continuous

tense is being used, as this tense is used to express an action starting in the

past but continues to occur, it continues to happen.... throughout sometime regularly

and it is still true in the present!... Let's move on and have a look at the use of

has been... Let's begin by looking at a sentence... here we can see the sentence:

That China said has been in our family for years... here we can see the verb have

being used in the third-person... that being has.... She has, He has and It has... In this

sentence the present perfect simple tense is being used and we are using the

third person as we are talking about the China set which takes the subject it...so

then we use the auxiliary verb has! ... In this example.... he has been reading for two

hours, we can see that the present perfect continuous tense is being used

and again in this example we can see has is being used... has been is being used in

this example because we're talking about the third person (he)...It would be

incorrect to say he have been... the rule is if we have a third person those being

he/she or it, then we use has... in this example sentence she has been running for half

an hour without stopping.... again we can see the present perfect continuous

tense being used... and the auxiliary verb here, have, is used in the third-person...

because here the subject is she, like the previous two examples... It would be incorrect

to use have in the third person, but we would use has instead... so remember if

you're talking about the third person, we always use has! The third person being he

she or it,,,, okay but what about had... let's have a look at this example: I had a

dress like that, but I don't know where it is now.... here we can see the verb have

been used in the simple past, the simple past of the verb have is had, if you are

expressing an action in the past using the simple past, then you have to be

using had.... but we can also use had as an auxiliary verb... let's have a look at this

example together... He had studied English before he moved to New York...Here we can

see had being used as an auxiliary verb to form the past perfect... Remember

friends the past perfect tense is used to express an action that happened

before another past action, so you simply put >> the past before the past... if you're

using the past perfect simple tense, you will have to use the auxiliary verb had

to form this tense... Also remember with the past perfect simple tense, he she it

does not use has! it uses had as an auxiliary verb had for all subjects in

the past perfect simple tense... the final sentence: he had been waiting there for

two hours before she had arrived... here had is being used to form the past perfect

continuous tense... here we can see the past perfect continuous tense being used

because an action that started in the past and continued in the past was

happening for some time in the past before another action.... Friends you may

have noticed that we focused on a few grammatical

structures in this lesson... keep in mind that we use the auxiliary verb have to

form the present perfect simple and the present perfect continuous tense, and the

auxiliary verb had to form the past perfect simple tense and the past

perfect continuous tense... if you'd like this video lesson make sure to HIT LIKE

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