Sage-Tips

Has been looking or had been looking?

It depends. If the person you are speaking to has just arrived and the utterance happens in the present, then it’s ‘have been looking’. If you are relating a past event, then it’s ‘had been’.

Have been looking for you meaning?

“I’ve been looking for you” implies that the looking continued up to the present. “I was looking for you” means that you looked in the past but then quit (at least momentarily).

Who of you or which one of you?

I would say “which of you” or “which one of you”. “Who” doesn’t sound wrong but to me sounds old-fashioned (e.g. in the bible we have “who among you” etc.) and is less common.

Have looked VS have been looking?

Yes, you can and there is no difference in meaning. You could also say 2) ‘I had been looking for you. ‘ Since you are no longer looking, 1) and 2) are logically most correct, but ‘I have been looking…..’ is probably most common and is correct if said very soon.

Has been looking Meaning?

I’ve been looking/was looking for you. In non-AmE, they have different meanings. To use the simple past tense, you’d need to be referring to a specific time. “I’ve been looking for you” means “Up until now …” To say, “I was looking for you” if you’re still looking up until your friend’s arrival, sounds quite wrong.

Is it one has or one have?

Here, the emphasis is on “one” and not on “them”. Hence, “one”, which is singular, becomes the singular subject which should be accompanied with “has” which is the singular verb here. “Have” is the plural verb.

What tense is have been looking?

Look verb forms

Infinitive	Present Participle	Past Tense
look	looking	looked

What is the tense form of had been?

The past perfect continuous tense (also known as the past perfect progressive tense) shows that an action that started in the past continued up until another time in the past. The past perfect continuous tense is constructed using had been + the verb’s present participle (root + -ing).

Which is correct when had looked or was looking?

” was looking ” is the correct answer. Simply due to the presence of the conjunction When which in your example grammatically expects a past tense rather than a past perfect tense. The only situation when had looked would be correct: I found my key after I had looked for something else.

Is it correct to say ‘where have you been?

Both “Where have you been?” and “Where had you been?” are grammatically correct. The only difference is the tense. “Where have you been?” is present perfect, and is used to convey a sense of a time immediately before the present. In this case, the person we are asking likely just showed up, and we’re asking them where they just came from.

Is it correct to say “where are you looking at?

The ‘at’ is unnecessary. ‘What are you looking at?’ is very common, but in this case ‘Where are you looking? is all you need. The ‘at’ implies a specific spot so depending on context you might ask ‘Where are you looking at specifically?’ but even then the ‘at’ seems superfluous because the word ‘specifically’ replaces it.

Is it correct to say I Found my key after looking?

The only situation when had lookedwould be correct: I found my key after I had looked for something else. OR After I had looked for something else I found my key. Note that the conjunction “After” is followed by a past perfect tense.