Name: English Grammar: "BEEN TO" or "GONE TO"?
Uploaded: 2018-03-16T08:51:06.000Z
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Oh, wow, I've definitely
never been there before.

Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson
on two commonly used and sometimes confused

And those two words
are: "been" and "gone".

Now, these two words, I say they are commonly
used and sometimes confused because they are

often used in a similar way, in a similar
context, but there is one situation where

Before we begin: What is
"been", what is "gone"?

Grammatically, these
are past participles.

And today we're specifically going to look at
how to use them with perfect tenses, because

the confusion with the two words usually
happens in the perfect tenses themselves.

So, if you have been to a place, this means
that you went there and you returned.

And by the way, this "he's", this means: "he has been
in this situation", this is the present perfect.

So you can say: "I've been to
India.", "I've been to Disney Land.",

So, if you want to talk about life experience
where you went to a place, you returned from

the place, it's behind you, it's in the past,
it's done, it's in your life experience, "been"

Now, I'm going to look at "gone" in a specific
context which basically means you went to

a place and you're still
there, and you went recently.

-"Frank's not in Canada, man.
He's gone to India."

"Hank/Frank, Hankfrank,
Frankhank has gone to India."

Let's look at some more of these
examples with "been" and "gone".

Life experience, I've never been and
returned, I have never visited China.

So we're using the past
perfect tense, here.

Ah: "We will have been in Montreal
for three years by then."

Now, here, it's actually
slightly different. Right?

Because you're not saying that you went to
Montreal and you returned to Montreal, but

that you have lived in Montreal for
three years, or: "We will have lived",

"We will have been in Montreal
for three years by then."

"Oh, we will have been in Montreal
for three years by that time",

Now, again, remember "been" is the past participle
of the verb "be", and after "be" you can use

many, many, many, many different things,
so you can talk about your age.

Right? You can talk about
adjectives, your feelings.

You can follow the verb "to
be" with a continuous form.

Right? So: "He's been playing", "He's
been reading", "He's been doing".

For this lesson I specifically want to focus
on using it to talk about travel and life

experience with visiting places
and returning from places.

Now, here we're using
the present perfect.

One of the uses for the present perfect is to
talk about something that happened recently.

Okay? And you can still see the effects,
or something that just happened.

Not: "He's been home", that means he went home and
he returned, and it's a weird kind of sentence.

Maybe, unless he went
for lunch, I guess.

And here's another one: "She's
gone grocery shopping".

-"Matilda's not here. She
has gone grocery shopping."

Okay? So she went recently,
she's there now.

Next one, ah: "They've
gone on vacation."

So your neighbours are not here, you
notice their car is not in the driveway.

-"Oh, the Hendersons are not here.
They've gone on vacation."

Okay? Recently he left the house,
he went to work, he's at work now.

Now, you could also say if it's the end of
the day: -"Hey, did you go to work today?"

Now, I did mention here-right?-that usually
"been" is used when you want to talk about

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