Note my changes above. When you put a full sentence in quotation marks, include the full stop only if the outer sentence doesn't continue after the closing quotation marks.Aren'tDon't both "He is called the most popular singer in history no full stop here" and "He has been called the most popular singer in history no full stop here" refer to titles that people gave him?
If theyaredo, what'stheirthe difference between them?
"He has been called ..." means people called him that in the past.
Not necessarily. He could still be called that.If somebody "has been called" something it happened in the past.
The two things aren't necessarily contradictory. (See below.)Not necessarily. He could still be called that.
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