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What is the difference between Where are you? and Where have you been? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between Where are you? and Where have you been? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (US)
“Where are you?”is asking your current location /at this moment.
Where have you been is asked when someone has been gone for a period of time.
I haven’t seen you at school this week. Where have you been?
You’re 10 minutes late. Where have you been?
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“Where are you?” - asking a person where he or she IS at an exact or specific time.
“Where have you been?” - asking a person where he or she WAS.
difference is the point in time.
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Where are you right now?
Where have you been? (where did you go?)
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