present perfect simple passive affirmative – English Grammar Profiler
In the English Grammar Profile, B2 point 27 in the category of PASSIVES is defined as:
present perfect simple passive affirmative
Here’s an example from englishclass101.com:
Traditionally, these meetings have been held Wednesday at noon, every other week.
Here are 50 head verbs that go in the present perfect simple passive affirmative verb phrase from the iWeb corpus.
1 HAS BEEN USED 89516 2 HAVE BEEN MADE 84822 3 HAS BEEN MADE 77399 4 HAVE BEEN USED 64855
5 HAS BEEN SHOWN 59557
6 HAS BEEN DESIGNED
7 HAS BEEN FOUND 44470
8 HAS BEEN NAMED 41108
The driver of the car in which the shooting occurred has been named as Frank Molloy.
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9 HAVE BEEN FOUND 40902 10 HAVE BEEN GIVEN 38776 11 HAS BEEN GIVEN 36387 12 HAS BEEN ADDED 34786 13 HAVE BEEN TOLD 33532
14 HAVE BEEN REPORTED 31571
15 HAVE BEEN ADDED 31135
16 HAS BEEN DEVELOPED 29495
17 HAS BEEN REPORTED 29000
18 HAS BEEN CREATED 28174 19 HAVE BEEN SHOWN 27586 20 HAVE BEEN KNOWN 27566 21 HAS BEEN SET 26466
22 HAS BEEN REMOVED 26404
23 HAVE BEEN TAKEN 26247 24 HAS BEEN KNOWN 25499 25 HAS BEEN SAID 25446
26 HAS BEEN UPDATED 25210
27 HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED 25081 28 HAS BEEN TAKEN 24975 29 HAS BEEN COMPLETED 24831 30 HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED 23556 31 HAS BEEN RELEASED 23394 32 HAS BEEN CALLED 21934
33 HAVE BEEN CREATED 20963
34 HAS BEEN CHARGED 20575 35 HAS BEEN AWARDED 20532 36 HAS BEEN DESCRIBED 20499
37 HAS BEEN APPROVED 20347
38 HAVE BEEN DESIGNED 19966 39 HAD BEEN MADE 19943 40 HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED 19859 41 HAVE BEEN REMOVED 19497 42 HAS BEEN PROVEN 19070
43 HAS BEEN SELECTED 19005
44 HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED 18798 45 HAVE BEEN KILLED 18475 46 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED 17926 47 HAS BEEN APPOINTED 17914 48 HAS BEEN LINKED 17596 49 ‘VE BEEN TOLD 17315
50 HAS BEEN REPLACED 17276
B1 vocabulary:
approved (1) charged (1) created (2) designed (2) developed (2) named (1) recognized (1) removed (2) replaced (1) reported (2) selected (1)
updated (1)