She has gone six months.

[yi-ing]

Are the following mean the same?

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

 

[yi-ing]

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.

 

[GoesStation]

How about?

She has died for six months.

No.

 

[jutfrank]

Are the following the same?

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

Yes.

 

[Phaedrus]

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.

 

[emsr2d2]

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".

 

[jutfrank]

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.

 

[tzfujimino]

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"?

 

[jutfrank]

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

Yes.

 

[Tdol]

She has died for six months.

No, but you can use the following:

She has been dead for six months.