Question at position 36 I have been being very tired lately because of AP testing. This sentence is incorrect. Why?been is not the past participle of "be""have" should be "had"The "be" verb is a stative verb, and we usually don't use stative verbs in the progressive tense

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Question restatement: The prompt asks why the sentence "I have been being very tired lately because of AP testing" is incorrect, offering four possible explanations. 
Option 1: "been is not the past participle of \"be\"." Here the claim is factually incorrect: been is indeed the past participle (and past participle form) of be in English. The error is not about the participle form, so this option misidentifies the real issue. 
Option 2: "\"have\" should be \"had\"." This would suggest a shift in tense to past perfect, but the sentence as written already uses have (present perfect) with been as part of a perfect progressive form. Replacing have with had would change the tense and aspect incorrectly, and does not address why the progressive construction is problematic. 
Option 3: "The \"be\" verb is a stative verb, and we usually don't use stative verbs in the progressive tense." This is the central rule at play: be is a classic stative verb describing a state or condition rather than an ongoing action, and in many cases we avoid progressive forms for stative verbs. The sentence attempts a present perfect progressive with a stative verb, which is not standard usage, making this explanation correct. 
Option 4: "The sentence uses \"being tired\"; you cannot pair tired with being." In fact, it is possible to describe states with predicates like \"being tired,\" but the core issue remains the inappropriate use of the progressive aspect with a stative verb, not a restriction on the noun tired itself. This option miscasts the main grammatical problem by focusing on a surface combination rather than the aspect choice. 
Synthesis: Among the four choices, the only explanation that accurately identifies the source of the error—the inappropriate progressive aspect with the stative verb be—is option 3. The other options mischaracterize the verb forms involved or misattribute the issue to tense shifting or noun-adjective compatibility rather than aspect usage.

Question at position 36 I have been being very tired lately because of AP testing. This sentence is incorrect. Why?been is not the past participle of "be""have" should be "had"The "be" verb is a stative verb, and we usually don't use stative verbs in the progressive tense

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Question at position 36 I have been being very tired lately because of AP testing. This sentence is incorrect. Why?The "be" verb is a stative verb, and we usually don't use stative verbs in the progressive tensebeen is not the past participle of "be""have" should be "had"

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