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"It {has been raining} and the streets were wet." Is the textbook wrong?

Overally, two dependent clauses must be of the same tense. Your reasoning is true. If we want to say 'the streets were wet' we must in main clause say: It had been rained and the streets were wet. …
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"It {has been raining} and the streets were wet." Is the textbook wrong?

It had rained and the streets were wet. This is the correct answer. 'Been' is assigned to 'passive voice' exclusively. If the verb is transitive then we can use the passive voice. The food had bee …
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