Writers occasionally confuse the words "being" and "been" because they sound similar and both come from the verb "to be." She could barely walk and had to use a wheelchair. In other words, symptoms that are being reported by those who have what has come to be known as long COVID. The discussion on Unity Mosque thus serves as a crucial reminder of how the society has treated the gender-non conforming individuals and has shut the door of religion on their faces, making religion an exclusionary space. Spaces like Unity Mosque undo exactly that hurt of rejection, where one is accepted and seen, especially for those who hold religion and their bond with the Creator as dearer to the self.

Eleanor Rykener is one such case. In 1394, Eleanor was arrested in London for being a sex worker. She had previously worked as both an embroiderer and sex worker in Oxford and London – two roles that were reserved for women at the time. They arrived in Britain on false papers. “It was very scary - it was the first time in my life that I lied like that. I felt terrible - as if I was committing some very bad thing. I still dream that I lied. Petrit’s hand was shaking when he handed over the papers.” For the moment the political rhetoric remains warm, and officials say people who have a good reason for missing the deadline will be allowed a “reasonable” further period to apply, but the small print spells out the chilling consequences of failing to get status. Although politicians are not currently choosing to highlight this publicly, the Home Office has made it clear in planning documents that, from January 2021 (in a no-deal scenario), anyone without valid UK immigration status “will be liable to enforcement action, detention and removal as an immigration offender”. Though the virulence of recent press coverage seemed temporarily to abate, it has been reignited by the Eurotunnel affair and the plan to establish rural “accommodation centres”. The tabloid press uses the language of “invasion”, as if by an enemy. But, of course, there’s nothing intrinsically illegal about most asylum seekers. Their illegality has been created by the asylum system. And often they’re “sans papiers” because the regimes from which they’re fleeing aren’t considerate enough to give documentation to those whom they are persecuting. One of the first things I did when I realised that I wasn’t getting better was that I phoned a friend who has had severe ME for several years.But, as this was the early days of YouTube, I also saw young American travelers being wild and crazy and seeing lots of success by doing it. So, I adopted another, wilder personality for my nightlife videos. It was too much and I think the handful of viewers who watched those videos could tell I wasn’t being myself. The words been and being are forms of the irregular verb be. Been is the past participle and being is the present participle and gerund form. In Samra’s words, which best sums it up, “Queer Muslims who fear for their lives every day- while walking down the streets of Punjabi villages or meeting a potential love interest for the first time in Tehran through a dating app- might not have the tools to understand the language written by academics in Ivy League schools”. The question of spaces, of representation thus become critical in reminding the world that they have always existed!

On the helpline, after much time listening to jangly hold music, the Home Office helper was both polite and honest, but had no answer as to why the app was not reading the digital code. She was advised to seek out one of the 80 designated EU settlement scheme scanning offices (in council offices and town hall register offices) where the passport could be scanned manually. This is a question I get all the time. Basically, my video release schedule is very different from most other travel vloggers. I have some friends who literally edit and release videos right after they film them, and I also have friends who shot videos years ago that they’ve never released. However, "being" can act as an adjective before a noun (or a pronoun) when it is joined by other words to form a participle phrase. Hoffmann was born to Venezuelan parents of Italian and Hungarian descent. Since then, he has been exposed to a diversified culture. There is only a little information exposed about his family. Still, within his feed, he had shared a video featuring hisfamily members. I was no longer teased for being ‘other’ because we were all different in our own ways. Looking different and sounding different and being different were no longer impediments to walking down the hallway or eating lunch in the cafeteria in peace”, Samra Habib writes.There is already concern from immigration lawyers about the upbeat slanting of statistics. The Home Office likes to say that almost 1.5 million people have been granted “some form of status”, but this masks the fact that currently about 40% are getting the inferior pre-settled status, which obliges them to adhere to strict rules on continuous residence for up to a further five years or risk getting pushed out of the system. Yet simply demonising those who demonise asylum seekers doesn’t take us very far, and ignores the fact that the press never only foments prejudice - it also milks that which is already there. It has long been apparent that bigotry is seeded by the daily experience of want: unemployment, dilapidated estates and hard lives rarely breed an expansive embrace of foreigners. Migration raises real and profound issues. By refusing to engage with them for so long, liberal politicians and governments have left the field to the right, which has been able to mark the boundaries of the argument. Had been is similar to have been and has been, except that it identifies actions that both began and ended in the past. It is used in the past perfect and past perfect progressive tenses. Where have been and has been suggest a past point in time that remains open and unfinished, had been indicates something that is closed and completed. But although her condition has improved, she is still far from well, which only underlines calls for proper recognition and management of serious post-viral conditions.