"have talked" and "have been talking"
I wonder which one of this two sentences is corret?

1) We have never talked to each other.
2) We have never been talking to each other.

If they're both correct, what's the difference? And a little question about "never", should it be "have never been..." or " have been never"?

Thank you in advance! :)

Question

"have talked" and "have been talking"
I wonder which one of this two sentences is corret?

1) We have never talked to each other. 
2) We have never been talking to each other.

If they're both correct, what's the difference? And a little question about "never", should it be "have never been..." or " have been never"?

Thank you in advance! :)

Answer

The second one is also correct, but I'd use it in a situation where at the moment i'm talking to the person, but I want to say that before that we hadn't talked. And about the "never", always use  "i have never been".

Answer

The first sentence is correct. The second sentence might be correct, but I'm not sure. It is very odd and most native speakers wouldn't say something like that.

And the proper word ordering is "have never been"

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Avoid the second sentence at all costs! It sounds completely awful! There is NO reason to ever say this, so forget about the word order. Frequency adverbs (always, sometimes, never) should not be used with Perfect Continuous tenses, as in your second example, if you are an English student.

The first example, Present Perfect, is great!

Answer

1) We have never talked to each other since we had that argument last year. (Excellent!)
But:
2) We have never been talking to each other.  
Wow, very awkward. I can't even make a sentence out of it but I'll try:
We have never been MUCH for talking to each other - we simply have nothing in common. (Very conversational - excellent!)

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