Grammar for "has been" ?

Question

we generally found sentences like "he has been talking for the last two hour". I know this sentence simply means that a person who started to speak something in the near past and still he is continuing the same(in present also). But what it is mean " A meeting has been arranged....". If we think same like our example (he has been talking for the last two hour".) we can say that a meeting is arranged in the past but it is still continuing in the present also. But its exact meanig as other people say is "it simply means a meeting arranged...." Why we cant use a meeting has arranged. what is the grammar behind it????

Answer 1

A meeting has been arranged = It was arranged by one(s) and the result was there still.  

he has been talking = emphasis on time and result of the action of talking.

a meeting is arranged = just mention of the event didn't indicated the priority about it.   It was true that It was a meeting was arranged, and it happened.

Answer 2

Passive voice isn't the correct answer to this question, as everything in the question is passive.

It's called perfect tense (had been = past perfect, has been = present perfect, will be = future perfect).

Basically, its a complex grammatical function that focuses the listeners attention on the product or consequences of an action.

For instance, with imperfect tense, saying "a meeting was arranged" draws attention/focus on the action of arranging. While in perfect tense, "a meeting has been arranged" draws focus to the product of the completed action: the meeting.

Answer 3

You can say "He has talked for the past two hours. and he is still talking." "Its been two hours since he started talking." Been is a past particle of Be. Its a word, and its just how it works, you neednt look so deep into it.

Answer 4

The difference is between the active and the passive voice.  In the passive voice, you'd say "a meeting has been arranged", in the active "we have arranged a meeting".

The passive voice states that something has been done, without necessarily telling you who has done it.  The subject of the sentence is what has been done.  In the active voice, the subject is the actor in the sentence.

Answer 5

If you say "a meeting has arranged" it means that a meeting has arranged something else (a nice bouquet of flowers, perhaps?).

Answer 6

What??? I dont think that question made any sence...I lost you after "But what it is mean"....=/ maybe its just because Im blonde, but I dont get what your asking.....And who cares any way?

Answer 7

i think it means that the meeting was arranged in the near past and has not occurred yet.  

we can't use "a meeting has arranged" because we need the passive voice.  We can say a meeting was arranged or will be arranged.  really it's, "a meeting (is/was/will be/has been) arranged by so-and-so".  Or you can say "so-and-so arranged the meeting..."     what i'm trying to say is, a meeting cannot arrange itself (or arrange anything else, for that matter).

Answer 8

instead of 'has been talking for the last.." u can just make it "he's been talking for the last.." pretty simple i think...

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