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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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