invented – English Grammar Profiler

B2, NEGATIVE, PASSIVES, PAST, perfect, simple / allowed, announced, applied, approved, arrested, charged, cleared, confirmed, considered, created, delivered, destroyed, developed, discovered, informed, installed, introduced, invented, mentioned, provided, published, raised, reached, removed, reported, tested, touched, trained, updated

Point 17 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as: PAST PERFECT passive SIMPLE negative form. A search on iWeb corpus for had _xx been _vvn The most common in ranking order are: SEEN, MADE, GIVEN, USED, PAID, TOLD, and TAKEN. Ranked 9 is ‘HAD NOT BEEN INFORMED’    台北時報 KMT slams DPP’s pork import …

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