HAVE BEEN / HAS BEEN / HAD BEEN - Complete English Grammar Lesson with Examples

hello lovely students and welcome back to English with Lucy today I have a grammar lesson all about have been has been and had been I receive questions about have has and had Bean all the time I'm going to clarify nearly all of the ways we use them now this is going to be quite a long video so before we start I'm going to tell you exactly what I'll be talking about so that you know what to expect the lesson will begin with which subjects we use with have has and had then I am going to show you how to form positive and negative sentences and questions using have has and had been after that we are going to discuss the pronunciation of these words and the use of contractions really important part do not miss it and then we're going to go over four of their key uses we're going to discuss how to talk about travel experiences that's a source of some really common mistakes we'll also discuss how to describe unfinished States and actions with an additional focus on for and since because that gets a lot of you I'm going to show you how to talk about two past events or actions and then finally we will focus on how to focus on the object of a sentence with the passive voice that might sound complicated but I'm going to make it really clear for you at the end of the video I'm going to give you some extra information about when we use have been has been and had been in other situations and then we will end this lesson with a short quiz so that you can see how much you remember and retain from this video I haven't done such an indepth long grammar lesson on this channel before I want you to feel like you're in a classroom with me going through the full process of learning about have been has been and had been let me know if you like it now let's start with some tenses and constructions in this lesson I'm going to mention the present perfect simple the present perfect continuous the past perfect simple the past perfect continuous and the passive voice and I'm not going to explain these tenses and constructions in detail because the focus today is on using have been has been and had been however if you want to learn more about these tenses and constructions don't worry I've got you I've got you a slang for I'll look after you I've got your back I'll support you I have created a free PDF and in that PDF I cover all of these tenses and structures in detail and I've also included everything a full summary of what we're going to discuss in this lesson and we end it with another quiz this PDF is virtually an ebook at at this point it is so thorough and so in depth and you can download it for free if you want it just click on the link in the description box you enter your name and your email address you sign up to my mailing list and the PDF will arrive directly in your inbox after that you will automatically receive my free weekly lesson PDFs alongside all of my news course updates and offers it's a free service you can unsubscribe at any time but to get that PDF just click on the link in the description box okay first I'm going to talk about the basics we use have been and has been in the present perfect tenses I you we they and plural nouns go with have been I have been you have been the books have been my parents have been he she it and singular and uncountable nouns go with has been she has been it has been London has been the bread has been bread is uncountable we use had been with all subjects nice and easy in the past perfect tenses I had been he had been our children had been the tea had been how can I not bring up tea I'm British all subjects in the past perfect tenses now let's move on to positive and negative sentences and questions in positive sentences the structure is subject plus have has or had been nice and simple in negative sentences we put not between have has or had and been subject have has or had not been in questions we invert the subject word order and we put have has or had before the subject have has or had plus subject plus been now I want to to note here that we can use Bean to be as a main verb or an auxiliary verb as a main verb it expresses the state or action being described it is not followed by another verb and you will see this later in the video in sentences like I have been to France as an auxiliary verb it adds grammatical information to a sentence it's followed by a main verb you will also see this later in the video in sentences like I have been studying English for 3 years in this sentence studying is the main verb okay we're doing well but there's more to do and before we get started with how these words are used we need to go over the pronunciation Bean is pronounced Bean or B Bean with a long e sound bin with a short I sound both are correct but bin is very common in Faster informal speech it's also very common for speakers to use contractions with have has or had been for example I have been often becomes I've been or I've been with the shorter I sound so listen out for the contracted forms I've you've weave and they've the same thing happens to has been which reduces to Z or s for example he's been she's been and it's bean and had Bean which contracts to D for example i' bean and he' bean there's an exception with the contraction of it had it had been which contracts to ited ited notice the extra schah sound there which adds an extra syllable ited ited finally we often contract a noun with have has or had been for example the books of Bean or London's Bean or our children of bean okay we're ready for uses let's talk about the first and easiest use of have been has been and had been this might be the easiest but this is where a lot of my students get confused and make mistakes we often use have been has been and had been when talking about travel experiences for example will has been to London many times this means that will has visited London many times in his life up until now note that it's been to London but it's just visited London without two that's a common mistake to insert a two where it's not wanted after visited here's another example I've been to France three times I have visited France three times in my life until now and I might go again in the future here are some more examples has Verity been to Cardiff yes she has been to Cardiff no she hasn't been to Cardiff have you been to Australia yes I have no I haven't so these answers are usually shortened to yes I have no I haven't please note that we can't talk talk about specific times with have or has been to talk about General travel experiences if you want to say exactly when something happened use the past simple it would be wrong to say I have been to Australia last year it should be I went to Australia last year now I'd like to mention something that lots of Learners find confusing have or has been versus have or has gone we use have or has has been to say that someone went to a place and then returned we use have or has gone to say that someone went to a place and has not returned look at these examples Alicia has been to Mumbai she went to Mumbai and then she came back Alicia has gone to Mumbai she will be back next week she went to Mumbai and she is still there you can also use had been when talking about travel experiences we use had Bean to say that we traveled or didn't travel to a place before another event in the past for example I had never been to the US before I visited New York last year there are two past tenses here I had never been and I visited both refer to the past the sentence means that the first time in my life that I visited the US was when I went to New York last year here's another example I was excited to receive an invitation to their wedding in Barcelona I had Been to Spain before but only to Madrid this sentence means that I received the invitation to the wedding in the past I visited Spain at some point before I got the invitation but not Barcelona where the wedding was okay we're ready for usage number two unfinished States and actions we use have been and has been in the present perfect simple to talk about states that started in the past and continue up to the present for example he has been a nurse for almost a year or he has been a nurse since last March he started working as a nurse last March and has had the job for almost a year he is still a nurse now we use have and has been plus ing in the present perfect continuous to talk about actions that started in the past and continue up to the present for example I have been studying English since 2021 2021 was my starting point for studying English so I started in 2021 and I have continued for 3 years until the present day you don't know if I will continue studying English in the future using have been or has been doesn't give you any information about the future we often use the words for and since with the present perfect tenses when we use for we're talking about the duration of the activity or the period of time so 3 years is how long I have been studying English when we say since we are talking about the starting point so I started studying English in 2021 here are some more example sentences William has been watching TV since midday Williams been watching TV TV for 3 hours presuming it's 3:00 in the afternoon in the first sentence William started watching TV at midday and he is still watching TV now in the second sentence he started watching TV 3 hours ago and he is still watching now another example we've been together for 7 years we've been together since 2017 so we got together 7 years ago in 2017 and we are still together now that's actually true I can't believe 2017 is 7 years ago okay use number three we're going to take a closer look at had been I'm going to take the sentences that we used to learn have been and has been and show you how they're used with had been and this is going to help you see how the meaning changes let's start with our sentence about studying English because it's nice and relevant for you here it is with had been in the past perfect continuous I had been studying studing English for 3 years when I went to London last year there are two past actions here one continuous past action I had been studying English and a single finished action I went to London now I want to compare that sentence with our previous one with have been I have been studying English for 3 years here there is one action that continues up to the present we use had been or had been plus ing when there are two past events the action with had been began in the past and continued up to a more recent point in the past we use the past simple to talk about the action or event that happened second in this case the more recent point was last year when I went to London we use the past perfect continuous for the action which happened first we don't know if the action of studying English continued beyond the visit to London but I hope so never stops studying English I haven't stopped studying English let's have a look at the other example sentences and change them to had been we have William had been watching TV for 3 hours when he stopped to do some housework the action had been watching began first and continued until William realized it was time to start the housework another example he'd been a nurse for 11 months when he quit his job in this case he became a nurse and continued in the job for 11 months then he quit this is an example of the past perfect simple and the last example is a sad one we had been together for seven years when we broke up we were in a relationship for seven years before we broke up I'm not referring to my relationship by the way last lesson I didn't wear my wedding ring because it was having some maintenance and there were rumors okay let's move on to the fourth and final use that I want to talk about in this video of have been has been and had been they are used in the passive voice so I buy lots of things online for my dog Diego and when I complete a purchase I get an email saying your order has been received this sentence is in the passive voice in the active voice it would be we have received your order the website uses the passive voice because we the seller isn't important to this situation the order is more important so the focus of the sentence is on that after I've bought something the shop sends my purchases to me I often get a message from The Courier notice the pronunciation of Coura CA with the uh sound Coura I always want to say Cora or Coura but it's Coura distracted by pronunciation I get a message from The Courier saying your parcel has been delivered or because I usually buy several things at once your Parcels have been delivered the parcels are more important than the company or person who delivered them hence the passive voice so how do we use had been in the passive voice this is quite Advanced but it's important that you know it cuz I'm sure you will hear it we use had been in the passive voice when there are two actions in the past for example my van had been repaired by the mechanic so it was as good as new both of the events or actions were in the past the first event that occurred is indicated with had been and the second with the past simple so first the mechanic repaired my car and then it was as good as new let's look at another example by the time we arrived at the hotel all the rooms had been booked for the night again we have two events in the past first people booked all of the rooms and then then we arrived at the hotel very poor planning okay extra bits extra info in this final section I want to give you some extra information about when you will see have been has been and had been used I'm not going to explain these uses in great detail but I just want you to be aware of them we have three to go for and number one have been after modal verbs we see have been but not has been appear after after modal verbs like might and must using have been with different modal verbs could be a whole new video in itself so here are just a couple of examples Maria might have been in Ghana last month she goes every year in janary or he must have been at work when you tried to call him number two the third conditional you will also see have been after a modal verb in the third conditional for example I would have been happy if you had come and we use had been in the third conditional too if I had been to Greenland before I would have told you about it number three has been as a noun can you notice anything weird with this one there is a hyphen between has and been a has been a noun is a person who was important famous or very good at something in the past but isn't anymore it's not a very nice thing to call someone but you should recognize the word even if you don't use it okay quiz time I'm going to show you five sentences and I want you to decide how to fill in the gaps choose from have been has been or had been are you ready here's number one she waiting for her friends to arrive for over 30 minutes I'll give you 5 Seconds has been she has been waiting why because he she it and singular and uncountable nouns go with has been number two Andy a teacher for almost 50 years when he retired you have 5 Seconds had been Andy had been a teacher for almost 50 years when he retired okay number three you ever to London 5 Seconds a nice question here have you ever been to London number four my bike stolen how am I going to get home 5 Seconds has been my bike has been stolen how am I going to get home this is in the passive voice and number five Kareem never to Mongolia but he's planning to go next year 5 Seconds Kareem has never been to Mongolia but he's planning to go next year how many did you get right share your results in the comment section that brings me to the end of this video about have been has been and had been there is more to learn about these words and the tenses we use them in but this has been a really solid overview of some common uses if you would like to learn more about the grammar the structures and to see a full summary of this lesson I've basically written the lesson notes with you download the PDF the link is in the description box I really hope you've enjoyed today's lesson if you'd like to learn more with me check out my B1 B2 and C1 courses the beautiful British English programs just visit englishwith lucy.com and you'll see all of the information you need I will see you soon for another [Music] video [Music] h

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Published: Thu Feb 01 2024