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Re: The use of "been"

Thank you; I appreciate your help.

Re: The use of "been"

Back with you, and sorry about the delay.

The verb ‘to be’ is special in that it is not an ‘action’ or ‘doing’ verb:
“He is a teacher” : ‘he’ is not ‘doing’ something to ‘teacher’. (So note: there is no Passive Voice for the verb ‘to be’.)

However, when we decline ‘to be’ (is/was/ will be) it is the main verb in a sentence. As the Present Perfect Tense, we get;

“He has been a teacher for two years.” (‘has’ is the auxiliary verb, and ‘been’ ( from the verb ‘to be’) is the main verb.)

If we want to talk about an on-going action/an action in progress, we add a ‘doing’ verb, and it becomes a Progressive Tense:

“He has been teaching for two years.” (where ‘teaching’ is the Present Participle of ‘to teach’)

Notice that the Present Perfect ‘has been’ now becomes two auxiliary verbs, and ‘teaching’ becomes the main verb.

This is what we see happening in your sentences:
In Active Voice:
1) Mr. Cox has been taking the wrong bills for years.
In Passive Voice:
He has been assigned a special team.
Notice that in the Passive Voice, we use the Past Participle as the main verb.
In the Active Voice:
“He has been assigning students to special teams this semester.” (Using the Present Participle ‘assigning’.)
In the Passive Voice:
Students have been assigned to special teams by their teacher, this semester. (Using Past Particple)

So – yes, ‘has/have been’ occurs in both because it is the Present Perfect component of the Present Perfect Progressive Tense form of the whole verb:

has been taking
has been assigned
has been assigning

If this is still not clear to you, please, just ask.

Re: The use of "been"

Thanks for taking your time to help, means a lot!