Could you please tell me the difference between "has" vs "has been".
For example:
1) the idea has deleted
vs.:
2) the idea has been deleted
What is the difference between these two?
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Best Answer
Let's look at a few more sentences in the same tense (present perfect) as your first example:
In each case the first phrase of the sentence is the doer of the action (Mary does the eating, I do the finishing, someone does the taking.)
From this it is clear that your first example does not make sense (although it is grammatically correct). An idea cannot do the deleting. It does make sense, however, to say: Someone has deleted the idea (actually, deleted the file would be a better example).
Your second sentence, on the other hand, is both grammatical and makes sense. It is in the passive form of the same tense. If we convert the examples above to the passive, then we get:
Your second sentence fits in here:
We use the passive like this when we want to shift the focus of the sentence away from the doer of the action. Maybe we don't know who did the action, or it is obvious, or we don't care who did it. The passive allows us to focus on what happened and does not require us to mention the doer.