Here are results from the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (http://corpus.byu.edu/):
Search phrase COCA BNC I have never been 642 136 I never have been 42 9 have never been 2672 489 never have been 1019 266 A rule to find ' I never have been' is useful. A rule that finds only 'never have been' is probably not useful. Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Jan Schreiber [mailto:jan.schrei...@languagetool.org] Sent: 17 August 2016 13:04 To: languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: English native speaker help Hi list, What Athena says is exactly what I learned in school, and they were supposed to teach us British English there. So it's probably safe to add this as a rule for both variants. See also: http://www.englishteachermelanie.com/grammar-present-perfect-have-you-ever-b een-to/ <snip> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
