Have VS Have Been

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Soumita Ghosh: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 111; Joined: Sat Apr 14, 2012 11:09 amFollowed by: 7 members; Thanked: 1 times

by Soumita Ghosh » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:50 pm

can have and have been be used together to maintain parallelism.

eg : 1) My classmates have visited the monument or have been to the city.

2)They have a drug prescription with a dosage too low to be effective, or have been taken off a drug too soon

Have is present perfect tense while have been is present perfect continuous tense.

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by brianlange77 » Wed Jan 30, 2013 6:14 pm

Soumita Ghosh wrote:can have and have been be used together to maintain parallelism.

eg : 1) My classmates have visited the monument or have been to the city.

2)They have a drug prescription with a dosage too low to be effective, or have been taken off a drug too soon

Have is present perfect tense while have been is present perfect continuous tense.

Is there a question in your post? I (and probably others) are confused...
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by EducationAisle » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:54 pm

Actually in the examples you have quoted, "have been" is also used as Present Perfect.

They have been here many times before. - Present Perfect

They have been coming here for the past 10 years. - Present Perfect Continuous

I don't explicitly remember any sentence on GMAT that tests "perfect continuous" tense.

By the way, "have" can also be used as Simple Present:

I have a car.

So, it really depends on the context.

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by Soumita Ghosh » Thu Jan 31, 2013 2:38 pm

2 sentences examples that I have given in my previous posts. Is those two sentence maintaining parallelism??

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