The verb have is used in the perfect tenses. Both HAVE BEEN and HAS BEEN are used in the PASSIVE VOICE formation. PastTenses is a database of English verbs. G. Giorgio Spizzi Senior Member. BEEN is the past participle verb form of the base BE form. Find more words! Here the time frame has been used. The perfect tenses of main verbs use the appropriate form of have, present or past, followed by the past participle.See The present perfect tense, The past perfect tense, The present perfect continuous tense and The past perfect continuous tense.. 2. Saved in Three Tenses —Have been saved, are being saved, shall be saved. The Scriptures speak of being saved in three tenses and senses. your current state of having been to Iceland continues to the present. In the second example, you may also choose to use simple past tense as the sequence of the events is very clear. =)) N. Natalisha Senior Member. In one place the scriptures say that we "have been saved" (past). Russian Jan 15, 2010 #2 'I have been told' - passive form of present perfect. I have read some really good books over the holidays. One can check verbs forms in different tenses. Use our search box to check present tense, present participle tense, past tense and past participle tense … Yes, I have been to Iceland. The past tense of am is was (colloquial, nonstandard). I'm losing my mind trying to find out what tense exactly is have + been + past participle probably is a dumb question.. but i really have to know. However what is obvious to some is not obvious to others. It is the same as using they, so the correct form is have been. This lesson may seem to be a statement of the obvious. The simple past tense is used when a new action takes place in the middle of a longer action taking place in the past tense. Drug can still sometimes be heard, but only in certain dialects within the United States. As an auxiliary verb, have is used to make the perfect tenses of main verbs. HAVE BEEN HAS BEEN HAS is the present auxiliary verb form of base BE form HAVE . Your sentence: “While many of Nato officers have been killed in the army … ” – “Many of the NATO officers” is a plural subject. had+been+present participle=past perfect continuous tense had+past participle= past perfect tense had+been+past participle=passive form of past perfect tense – user81963 Jun 23 '14 at 13:29. add a comment | 1 Answer Active Oldest Votes. The present perfect, formed by combining has or have with a past participle—usually a verb ending in -d, -ed, or -n—indicates actions or events that have been completed or have … Sometimes, a group of people have a way of speaking that’s particular to them. Have been and has been are the present perfect forms of the verb be. For example, “When I saw her, she was going to the market.” It can be a phrase they’ve coined. The recognized and correct past tense form of the verb drag is dragged. 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