English Grammar: "BEEN TO" or "GONE TO"?

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Perfect explanation Now I know the difference between been and gone. thanks very much you guys are great

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I do appreciate the video and it also helped me to get deep sense about " been " from a native English speaker.

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It's so interesting watching these videos as a native english speaker. I wonder what the technical rule is for using them together, like "She's been gone for five years now" which can refer to death. Or, "Where is Bob? He's been gone for five hours and we still haven't heard from him," which refers to someone not dead but away for a prolonged period of time.

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It's the first time that I listen a good explanation about the mental different use among p. perfect and simple past, therefore, thank you Alex ; )

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Hey, Alex! How are you doing ? Recently I was thinking about the uses of the prepositions (of place) in, at, and to after the verb phrase "I have been..." as an answer for the question "Where have you been ?" According to my research, I have drawn some conclusions: 1. the speaker could use all these three prepostions forementioned depending on meaning and context 2. If "I have been" means "I have gone", the speaker should use the preposition "to" 3. If "I have been" literally implies the present perfect of the verb "to be", the speaker should use either "in " or "at" depending on the position of the prepostion's object concerced to the place. Please correct me if I'm wrong! thanks!

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THanks for this summary finally i have understood the deference between gone to and been to

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That's a great idea for a lesson! I don't see anything on EngVid that discusses this difference. I'll look into it. For now, I can say that the perfect continuous is for longer actions that started in the past and have continued until the present. The present perfect can be used in a similar way, but it's also used for life experience and uses stative/non-action verbs in addition to action verbs. That's a super simplistic explanation for now!

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