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Old 25-Jul-2006, 00:31
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Default Re: active and passive about "been"

How about, "I might have been being rude"? (as a double to be construction) This sounds slightly awkward to me, but I can't find a grammatical error in it, and the meaning is subtly different than, "I might have been rude."
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