Answer by Ben Kovitz for A new school {has been / is} built
Yes, #3 is possible. As you suspected, it needs additional context.Imagine that you are watching a newsreel from 1940. There is a news story made by the people of a small town somewhere in the United...
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You could say A new school is built in our town every year now that gold has been discovered and the population is growing so rapidly. In fact, one is still being built right around the corner.But if...
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Ordinarily we use the simple present to express current states, not current events—especially telic events, events which have a goal 'built in' to the sense of the verb. If the event is still in...
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I have come across such a gapped sentence in a placement test for pre-intermediate-intermediate students to the course book, Choices by Adrian Tennant (2012):A new school ... in our city.A student is...
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