please correct these lines
I did learn in grammar that the word "has been" represents the action in present perfect continuous tense and then the verb should in continuous form,but when I am sending messages I noticed that "the message has been sent" why does this verb not in continuous form.
please clear my doubt and also correct these lines.Thank you
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Phil is correct."Message has not been sent" is a passive sentence- the server did not send the message,so the message has not been sent.
We use passive to talk about the action rather than the person doing the action-
The man has been caught (we don't know who caught him or it is not important)
The Police caught the man (we are emphasizing that the Police did it)
I hope this helps.
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In this case, the verb "to be" is used to form the passive voice. In general, the verb "to be" can be used with the present participle to form a continuous aspect, or with the past participle to form the passive voice. Passive voice means that the subject of the sentence is not the performer of the action. In this case the message doesn't do anything, you sent the message.
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