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Old 05-Nov-2006, 00:23
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The job is done.
The job has been done.
Meaning that some kind of job has been finished now?


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Old 05-Nov-2006, 00:53
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The job is done.
The job has been done.
Meaning that some kind of job has been finished now?


Yes, both have that meaning.
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Old 09-Nov-2006, 06:35
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I think both are used as same meanning. But the former is more usual, right?
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Both sentences seem to me are with same meaning that the job is finished .
But, I think grammatically there is difference that ( Sentence in the past tense ) means that the job is done but with no exact time in the past . When (2nd Sentence should be " the job has been doing" which is present perfect continuous that means the job was doing untill is finished now .

am I right ?
what do u think ?
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Both sentences are proper english.If you say "The job is done" I would understand that you did it yourself or you took part in the process
....in the other sentence "the job has been done", I would understand that somebody else "took care of the job " either for you or irrespective of whether you took part in the job or not....
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