She has gone six months.

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Are the following mean the same?

She has been gone six months.
She has been dead six months.
She has died six months.
 
Are the following the same?

She has been gone for six months
She has been gone six months.

The third is incorrect - She died six months ago.
How about?

She has died for six months.
 
She has been dead six months.

For what it's worth, the present simple is possible in a related, somewhat literary construction:

She is six months dead.
 
You can't say "She has died for six months". You can only die once. You can't do it constantly for a period of six months.

If you use "She has died", you can't add a time reference. It's simply a statement of fact, like "She is dead".
 
You can't say "She has died for six months". You can only die once. You can't do it constantly for a period of six months.

If you use "She has died", you can't add a time reference. It's simply a statement of fact, like "She is dead".

True, but there are two very different senses of the verb die. We can say She's been dying for six months.
 
We can say She's been dying for six months.

May I ask what the sentence means?
Is it the present perfect progressive version of "She is dying"?
 
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