What does so I've been told mean?

Is used to indicate that what you've just said is something you heard from other people, or is being said by others.
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What is the difference between I have been told and I was told?

I was told = Someone once told me and I (i) believed them (ii) did not believe them. I have been told = Someone once told but I am unsure as to whether I should believe it.
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What does I'm told mean?

4. "I'm told" generally refers to a rumour or gossip, for example, "I'm told that they are going to fire 20 people", it's fairly synonymous with "I've heard that..."..
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What is the meaning of I've been?

It's a phrase that simply means that you wanted to do something for a long time and just repeat it. “I've been meaning to do something.
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Is I am told correct?

The first is in the present tense and the second is in the past tense. They are used interchangeably to say that someone has told you something. The first implies that you are still being told and for that to be correct, ''I was told' must be correct too.
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Have been informed Meaning?

When you're informed, you have all the information or knowledge that you need. An informed group of voters has been educated in detail about all the issues and candidates.
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What difference between said and told?

The main difference is that when we use told we normally say who is spoken to, so we have to use it with a direct personal object. When we use say, we don't normally indicate who is spoken to, or, if we do, we must put to before the object.
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How do I use I've been?

We use the present perfect continuous to talk about repeated activities which started at a particular time in the past and are still continuing up until now: I've been going to Spain on holiday every year since 1987. I haven't been eating much lunch lately. I've been going to the gym at lunchtimes.
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Is I've a grammatically correct?

As for the contraction, Sydney Greenbaum, writing in the Oxford English Grammar, describes “I've” as the contracted form of “I have” when “have” is either a primary verb or an auxiliary.
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Have been told meaning?

"I was told" implies that you were instructed specifically about the current situation, whereas "I have been told" suggests that you recall, some time in the past, being given the information, generally in a context not directly connected to the current situation.
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What is the meaning of have been asked?

I've been asked = I have been asked , it means that at some point someone asked you what you like.
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What tense is have been told?

It's the passive voice of the present prefect tense. "We have been told [by them]" - passive. "Had been told" is the passive voice of the past perfect.
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Have told or had told?

It depends. “I have told you.” means that, sometime before the moment you are saying this, the telling has happened. “I had told you.” means that, at some moment in the past, the telling had already happened.
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What does it mean to tell on someone?

1 informal : to tell someone in authority about the bad behavior or actions of (someone else) Please don't tell on me. 2 : to have a noticeable effect on (someone or something) The stress began to tell on her face/health.
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Is I have been there correct?

They are both correct but under different circumstances. It depends on whether the following clause is restrictive or non-restrictive. Examples: “Let's move the picture, which has been there for ages, to the other room.”
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What is the difference between I was and I have been?

The difference between “has been” and “was” is that “has been” is used in the present perfect continuous tense whereas “was” is used in the past continuous tense. They are used for two different tenses and for two different times, present and past.
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Had I been there meaning?

INFORMAL. If someone tells you about an experience or a situation and you say that you have been there, you mean that you have had the same experience yourself.
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Have been and has been difference?

“Have been” is used in the present continuous perfect tense in the first, second, and third person plural form whereas “has been” is used in the singular form only for the third person.
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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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Has been have been examples?

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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Is saying and telling the same thing?

'Say' and 'tell' (meaning)

'Say' means: To utter words in order to communicate information, an opinion, or a feeling. 'Tell' means: To communicate something to someone in spoken or written forms.
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How do you use told in a sentence?

[M] [T] He told me not to drive too fast. [M] [T] He told me the story of his life. [M] [T] She told me an interesting story. [M] [T] No one told me that he had failed.
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What's another word for telling someone something?

Some common synonyms of tell are betray, disclose, divulge, and reveal. While all these words mean "to make known what has been or should be concealed," tell implies an imparting of necessary or useful information.
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Were informed or have been informed?

We were informed tells us that at some moment in the past, probably already specified, or led up to, in the narrative, by some means you received the information. We had been informed tells us that at the particular moment in the past about which you are talking, the informing was already in the past.
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