Pls teach me English. What's the difference between "I have just been to...

[Yuka N]

...the airport to see my friends off" an Pls teach me English. What's the difference between "I have just been to the airport to see my friends off" and "I have just went to the airport to see my friends off" ??.

My textbook of English Grammar says "have been to" can express only the experience that the person went there. But sometimes it also can express "the person wnet there and returned just now".

So, I think the two sentences above have almost the same meaning, but I am not sure exactly what the difference of the meaning of the two sentences is.

So, Please theach me.

It might be,,,, "I have just went to the airport to see my friends off" can express only the person went to the airport just now?? and the person is in the airport now?? which means the difference is this sentence doesn't include the person's back???

Oh, I'm confusing......

[justjoshua18]

"have" is a helping verb which is usually followed by a past participle. In the 2nd sentaence, "went" is not a past participle and cant be used with have, this makes the second sentence grammatically incorrect.
The first sentence, "I have just been to the airport to see my friends off" is correct and implies that the person in question has gone to the airport and just returned.

[Avin S]

Hey,

I think the sentences do mean the same thing, but I also think you may have messed up the second sentence. It may have been:
"I just went to the airport to see my friends off."

If that is the sentence, it does have the same meaning as the first one.

Hope I helped!

[be_my_penguin_xx]

Technically, they mean the same thing. It's just that the second sentence is incorrect when it comes to grammar. If you say I have just went to the airport, people will be able to understand you but it is not correct grammar. Been to the airport is the correct way to say it.