{"id":72164,"date":"2019-09-16T05:37:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72164"},"modified":"2019-09-16T05:37:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T05:37:31","slug":"been-as-the-past-participle-of-come-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/been-as-the-past-participle-of-come-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Been As The Past Participle Of Come And Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>Been <\/b>is often used as the past participle of <b><i>come <\/i><\/b>and <b><i>go.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you ever been to Cairo? (= Have you ever visited Cairo?)<\/li>\n<li>I have been to see my uncle. (= I have paid a visit to my uncle.)<\/li>\n<li>Has the postman been yet? (= Has the postman called yet?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that <b>been <\/b>is used for completed visits.<\/p>\n<p>Compare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The postman has already <b>been.<\/b> (= He has come and gone again.)<\/li>\n<li>Where is John? He has <b>gone <\/b>to Cairo. (= He is in Cairo at the moment.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been is often used as the past participle of come and go. Have you ever been to Cairo? (= Have you ever visited Cairo?) I have been to see my uncle. (= I have&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1325,1326,1327],"class_list":["post-72164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-been","tag-come","tag-gone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72165,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72164\/revisions\/72165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}