Hi Mr Paul,

In the following sentence, a strange version of the verb to be (is been) is found. Please clarify.

"Master Key System is been finalized and forwarded to the contractor."

Thanks!

Hi

It looks like a mistake to me. It should be "has been finalised ...".

The past participle "been" is only used with the perfect auxiliaries "has" and "have".

The only other possibility is that it should be present continuous "is being finalised ..."


PaulM

Thank you so much sir.

IS/WAS IS USED WITH "BEING".BEING IS THE PRESENT PARTICIPLE FORM OF THE VERB BE.IT IS USED WITH THE WORD IS,WAS,WERE.WHILE BEEN IS THE PAST PARTICIPLE OF BE.ITIS USED WITH HAVE,HAS.