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is gone vs.has gone What`s the meaning of these sentences: She is gone. She has gone. When I look at these sentences(see below) it seems to me that both of them convey the same sense. If I`m wrong when I have to apply either, one or another case in particular. She felt a vague sense of loss a moment after he kissed her cheek and was gone. Then Blomkvist had gone to make-up and subjected himself to a long interview on film.
Jul 27, 2015 7:22 AM
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Technically, "gone" is an adjective in "She is gone", but it's the perfect form of "to go" in "She has gone". So "She is gone" focuses on the state of her not being here, and "She has gone" focuses on the act of her having gone in the past. Realistically though, the difference is very minor and they both convey the same piece of information, and it would never be wrong to interchange them. In casual language, they'd both be said as "She's gone" anyway.
July 27, 2015
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'She has gone' is a normal, straightforward use of the present perfect of the verb 'to go' - she goes, she went, she has gone. Unlike other European languages which use the auxiliary 'to be' for verbs of movement in perfect tenses, English only has one possible auxiliary verb in the perfect - the verb 'to have'. 'She is gone' is more literary. You would normally only see this written in a novel or poem. Don't think of 'gone' as being part of verb construction here. Think of it as a word meaning 'not here'.
July 27, 2015
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She is gone. ( She was never there. ) She has gone. ( She was there but is not any more) This is how I see them.
July 27, 2015
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