Had and been are both helping verbs. Helping verbs must help action verbs. In this sentence, had and been are helping the present participle making , which is an action verb. Because making is a present participle, it must have helping verbs to

In the purest sense, to be is to exist. There is a second moon hidden behind the other one. No, there is not. Yes, there is . "Been" has two other uses in forming various tenses: The passive voice - I am cheated / I have been

Hey everyone, This is an interesting argument we got going on in here. I actually believe the proper sentence should be: "The store has been opened since 1995." Which implies "the store has been opened by someone since

Hi, Eddie, I struggled with the same question. I guess anybody can make up a term. Some stick; some don't. CJ seems to talk about the function of a word vs. its identity, or something like that. I think it's all a matter of definition, and

There's been a little debate fired in another newsgroup with an innocent question of how many tenses are used in common English in Ireland. ... As others have said, it all depends on what you count as a tense. I count 14, and these are the