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Zeeshan Butt
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Unpacking English, Bit by Bit
A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.
Unpacking English, Bit by Bit
A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.
Unpacking English, Bit by Bit
A community for questioning, nitpicking, and debating the quirks and rules of the English language.
Username
Zeeshan Butt
Member Since
November 3, 2017
Total number of comments
1
Total number of votes received
7
Bio
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“if he were alive, he would be” vs. “would have been”
I need to understand correct use of " had been". Can I write a sentence in this way:
My dead son had been a good friend of mine. He had been a brave boy who fought courageously. He had been suffering from liver cancer etc...