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Kevin
"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! :)
2017년 5월 15일 오후 11:44
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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".
2017년 5월 15일
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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"
2017년 5월 15일
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!
2017년 5월 16일
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!)
2017년 8월 28일
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