The Raddish has always been found in India.

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"The Raddish has always been found in India". (It means we have always found it in India. It wasn't brought here from any other country)

"The raddish has ever been found in India." (What does this sentence mean?)

Please check.
 
I would use The radish is native to India.
 
"The raddish has ever been found in India." (What does this sentence mean?)

It doesn't mean anything. Note the correct spelling of ​radish.
 
It doesn't mean anything. Note the correct spelling of ​radish.

Is my first sentence totally incorrect?

Can we also say "The radish is a native vegetable to India" or "There is a native vegetable to India and that is Radish"?
 
Is my first sentence totally incorrect?
The first sentence is OK but I wouldn't necessarily understand it to mean that it's a vegetable that is native to India.

Can we also say "The radish is a native vegetable to India"?
That's not natural. You could change the order of "native" and "vegetable". There would be an implied "that is" between the two in the resulting sentence.


Can we say "There is a native vegetable to India and that is Radish"?
No. For a start, you have inexplicably capitalised "radish". It also implies that there is only one vegetable that is native to India. That's simply not true.

See above. Stick to "The radish is native to India". Most people know that a radish is a vegetable.
 
See above. Stick to "The radish is native to India". Most people know that a radish is a vegetable.

"The radish is a vegetable native to India".
 
The radish has ever been found in India is correct, but so old-fashioned that it would never be heard in current speech.
 
The radish has ever been found in India is correct, but so old-fashioned that it would never be heard in current speech.

What does this sentence exactly mean? Could you please tell me? I am a bit confused.
 
The radish has ever been found in India is correct, but so old-fashioned that it would never be heard in current speech.

What does this sentence exactly mean? Could you please tell me? I am a bit confused.

It's correct because we used to use "ever" to mean "always". That's how it's used in the poetry quote "Twas ever thus, and ever thus will be" (Keating, Dead Poets' Society) and the sentence means "It was always like this and it always will be". However, as Probus pointed out, it's so old-fashioned, no one would use it like that today.
 
The radish has ever been found in India is correct, but so old-fashioned that it would never be heard in current speech.

For the purposes of English learners, I'd say it's incorrect. It would have been correct in older varieties of English, and Tolkien favored the usage, but nobody should write that way today unless they're writing dialog for a nineteenth-century character.
 
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