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  2. Feb 22, 2016 · The quick answer is that in the sentence "He is gone" is is a linking verb, and "gone" is an adjective, a subject complement. The question gets interesting (read: "contentious") when it gets to "gone."

  3. Sep 2, 2016 · The answer is yes. The word "gone" is the past participle of the verb "go." It is also used as an adjective. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gone. You only use has/have or had when using he Present Perfect Tense [has, have] or Past Perfect Tense [had].

  4. Mar 2, 2011 · When we say, “We will have been gone,” we’re using “gone” as an adjective. What this boils down to is that there’s a difference between having gone and being gone, between having died and being dead.

  5. Oct 20, 2017 · "Gone" is unusual in this respect because even though "go" is intransitive, "gone" is used as and recognised as an adjective (M-W, Oxford): "Is he gone?" - although (except in slang) "gone" is rarely attributive (so we say the money was gone but not the gone money ).

  6. Nov 5, 2019 · “Gone” here acts like an adjective – it describes the state (being away) of the noun (my dad). So “he was gone” means that at some time in the past he was not here – he was gone, away. “He is gone” means that now, in the present he is not here.

  7. For example, "He has gone to the store" indicates that he left for the store at some point in the past. On the other hand, is gone is used to indicate that someone or something is currently not present. For example, "The cookies are gone" means that there are no more cookies left at the moment.

  8. Aug 19, 2024 · He is gone or he has gone— which one is correct? Both? Then what’s the difference? Read on to clarify this once and for all. I think I’ll go now… To Be Gone. When you use ‘gone’ with the verb ‘to be,’ it functions as an adjective and has several meanings:

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