She is being mistreated. She has been being mistreated for five years.
Is the second sentence grammatically correct? Or should the being been
be contracted to just been
? I. e. She has been mistreated for five years.
She was mistreated. She has been mistreated.
If so, how to disambiguate it from the above formation? The original has a progressive connotation, and the one right above is simple.
I came up with the second sentence by converting was
to had been
and leaving the being
as is. That's because that's what I do with sentences such as She is eating
-> She has been eating
(I leave the eating
as is).
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