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Bookmark or Share- "I been" or "I’ve been"? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIn the part of the United States where I live, it's very common for speakers to swallow the v sound in "I've been"; as a result, if you didn't know (or assume) that they intended to say "I've been," you might very well conclude that the actual words they spoke were "I been." –
- grammar - I have never been here or I have never been there, which is ...There is someplace that I am not currently. So in your original sentence, it should be "here" rather than "there" because you are currently at the time of speaking at that place. Now, you might say . Sorry I was late. I had never been there. Because you are presumably no longer in that place. So it is now there rather than here (wherever you ...
- What is the difference between have been and went?When speaking vaguely about the time use "have been" or "I've been". Example: "I've been to Greece (before)." When you are being more precise about the exact time period you visited, you cannot use "have been". You need to use "went". Example: "I went to Greece last summer" is correct. "I have been to Greece last summer" is incorrect.
- How can I use “must have been”? - English Language & Usage Stack ...Now if you want to use the form 'must have been', it works with the first example: 'If they were not at their desks, clerks must have been in the garden'. But it doesn't work with the second example. In that case you would have to say 'As the fire alarm had gone off, the clerks should have been in the garden'.
- phrase meaning - "gone there" vs "been there" - English Language ...However, while nobody would question the use of "I've been there three times today" to mean that you went there and came back, there are many who would object to "I've gone there three times today" to mean the same thing. Some often associate the use of "gone" with the person being somewhere else, away from the speaker.
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