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Today would have been or today is
It depends if he's still alive or not. "Is" is correct if he is alive, if not then "would have been" is correct. "Is" would not be actually incorrect if he was dead, but ...
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'Having been released in ...' or 'Released in ...'? Is the Perfect Participle Necessary?
Note: Having researched this topic in detail, I am posting an answer that I feel best addresses my question.
In short, the perfect participle is not always required to indicate that the content of the ...
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'Having been released in ...' or 'Released in ...'? Is the Perfect Participle Necessary?
The Perfect aspect (particularly as Having been X'ed, and even more particularly when "fronted") normally implies a causal relationship, not just a temporal one. One thing followed the other ...
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'Having been released in ...' or 'Released in ...'? Is the Perfect Participle Necessary?
You don't need the "having been" in the Avatar movie sample sentence.
Other examples:
Painted in purple and blue, the room now looked very merry.
Decried by some and praised by others, the ...
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