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‘Has Been’ or ‘Have Been’ or ‘Had Been’: How to Use Each One

'Have been,' 'has been' and 'had been' all sound very similar, but are they used for the same thing?

Present perfect continuous tense

How to know when and how to use each one? That is what we will cover in today's article.

The quick answer is:

'Has been' is the present perfect tense for the pronouns 'he', 'she', 'it'
'Have been' is the present perfect tense for the pronouns 'I', 'you', 'we', 'they'
'Had been' is the past perfect tense for all pronouns

Let's start with the present perfect.

When and how should you use which phrase? What is the difference between the two?

Have been examples

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Has been past tense

And what do these verb phrases mean?

You can first brush up on your present tenses here if you like.

You can use the present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses if you want to talk about something that happened in the past.

Why, then, is it called the present perfect? That is because the past event or action continues to be true today.

The present

has is used in past tense

has is used in present tense