Have been working Meaning?

I have been working here for 20 years.
(Present perfect continuous tense). It shows an action that started in the past continued without breaks up until now and is still continuing.
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What does it mean I have been working?

" I have been working here since 1999" means that I started working here in 1999 and I still work here.
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Have been working or was working?

"I was working" indicates that the working stopped at some point before the time of speech. "I've been working" indicates that the working has continued to the time of speech.
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Has been working or has been worked?

Every time you're trying to give someone a clue you HELP. However, the word "now" is what made me unconfident. If the sentence had been "My father ... for two years", it would obviously have been "has worked", no doubt, but since the "now" has appeared there, I would still use "have been working".
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Have been been meaning?

“Have been” and “has been” are used to mean that something began in the past and has lasted into the present time.
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Job interview English I have worked and I have been working (Present perfect simple + Continuous )



What is the meaning of have been?

: something that might have happened.
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Has been or have been?

"Has been" and "have been" are both in the present perfect tense. "Has been" is used in the third-person singular and "have been" is used for first- and second-person singular and all plural uses. The present perfect tense refers to an action that began at some time in the past and is still in progress.
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How can we use have been?

We would use have been when the sentence subject is I, you, we, or the third person plural (the children have been studying grammar all morning; they have been studying all morning). If the sentence subject is a third-person singular noun (he, she, it, Courtney), we would use the phrase has been.
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Will have been working tense?

The activity will have begun sometime in the past, present, or in the future, and is expected to continue in the future. In November, I will have been working at my company for three years. At five o'clock, I will have been waiting for thirty minutes.
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Has been or have been examples?

“Have been” and “has been” are used in the present perfect continuous form of sentences. For example, She has been going to school and They have been going to school. The present perfect continuous form is used to denote that something which had begun in the past is still continued.
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What tense is have been doing?

The present perfect continuous tense (also known as the present perfect progressive tense) shows that something started in the past and is continuing at the present time. The present perfect continuous is formed using the construction has/have been + the present participle (root + -ing).
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Will have been meaning?

This refers to to a point in time which is in the future relative to now - in this case the year 2030. Will have been refers to a time, which is in the past relative to a time in the future.
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Would have been Vs will have been?

What is the difference between "would have been" and "will have been"? Answer: The difference is between certainty that something will happen vs. certainty that something will not happen because of some condition in the future.
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Would have been meaning?

We use would have been is used to explain the logic of events. Examples: “The party would have been a disaster if Mary didn't show up, she had everyone laughing” “I would have been there but I had to pick up my daughter from school early today” “Frank would have been here earlier, but he got held up in traffic”
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Have been or being Meaning?

As a rule the word 'been' is always used after 'have' whereas 'being' is never used after 'have'. It is used after 'be'. 'Been' is the past participle of the verb 'be' and is usually used with the perfect aspect with 'have' in all its forms i.e. had and has.
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Have been completed or are completed?

are refers to the current state, but completed is past tense. I won't say people don't write it this way, but it would be better to write: The requested modifications are complete. As a simple statement of fact this is fine.
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Have been made meaning?

we have been made = we have been found out. = we have been discovered = they know about us, etc... "Get out of there, you've been made!"
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Is have been present?

The present perfect continuous is formed with have/has been and the -ing form of the verb. We normally use the present perfect continuous to emphasise that something is still continuing in the present: She has been living in Liverpool all her life. It's been raining for hours.
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Have been there meaning?

Definition of I have been there

—used to say that one has experienced the same thing that someone else has experienced I know how you feel.
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Had been employed Meaning?

If one just states "has been employed" without mention of duration, it means the employee has worked for the company in the past, but not currently. However, one can say "has been employed for 2 years", for example, to indicate both current employment status and duration worked so far.
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Would have been Vs have been?

have been is sure whereas would have been shows the possibility. I have been working hard to get good results. I would have been working hard if I was in peace.
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Would have been Grammar?

In "would have been" HAVE is a helping verb. It is combined together with WOULD and BEEN (form of the verb BE). The main verb of this sentence is BE. In a different tense, it's the same as saying, "I am more satisfied."
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Are have been?

The auxiliary verb 'are' is used as the plural form of the auxiliary verb 'is', and it is used in the present continuous tense. On the other hand, the form 'have been' is used as the preset perfect continuous form of any given verb. This is the main difference between the two words.
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Has been or have been synonym?

In this page you can discover 14 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for has-been, like: should-be, no-hoper, weirdo, would-be, be, talentless, wannabe, buffoon, back-number, singlehandedly and cameron-led.
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