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Perfect constructions employ a form of HAVE as an auxiliary and the past participle of a lexical verb to express past events as a current state.
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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.
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