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    No 5 sentence/help

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    No 5 sentence/help
    Message from shaaraf posted on 12-04-2013 at 23:19:39 (D | E | F)
    Hello,

    Can you help me please?
    Thanks in advance...!

    There are 5 types of sentences with 'have been or has been'.
    I understand 4 types, but I cant understand no 5.

    1:I have been to Paris a couple of times. means = I have the experience of being in Paris more than once.
    2:I have been taking English lessons for about a year .means = Your studying started a year ago and continues to present.
    3:She has been sick. means = She was feeling physically ill sometime back and has not got well yet.
    4:I have been taking English lessons for about a year. means = Your studying started a year ago and continues to present.
    I understand all above sentences, but I don't understand that sentence.
    5:'Runner has failed', but why can't it be 'Runner has been failed'.

    How to understand that type of sentences? Where to use 'has+failed' or 'has been+failed'?

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    Edited by lucile83 on 13-04-2013 08:17


    Re: No 5 sentence/help from gerondif, posted on 13-04-2013 at 00:19:08 (D | E)
    Hello,
    "Runner has failed" is probably a headline from a newspaper.
    A runner has lost a race
    He hasn't won.
    He has failed to win.

    There is no need for "been" in those sentences.

    If you used been + past participle (ed), it would be a passive voice.
    Runner has been hit by lorry.
    The runner has been congratulated by the President after his victory in The New York Marathon.

    You will use have + been + ing when there is a time reference with "for" or since".

    I am writing to you.
    I have been writing for 5 minutes, since five past twelve am.




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