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Grammar pedants - help please.

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Cyclops Oct 2019 7:46pm, 10 Oct 2019 3,890 posts	Quote Pin Cyclops I called it a speech tag in the thing I wrote.
ChrisHB Oct 2019 10:24am, 11 Oct 2019 18,398 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB Views on It's been and being vs It's been and it's being please. The 's representing is and has as I don't need to explain, I think both "it's" are required and that it sounds odd with only one. Or should I preserve the continuous tense with it's been being and is being ?
Rosehip Oct 2019 10:29am, 11 Oct 2019 13,819 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Written or spoken? I think I'd put -it has been and is being - or even it has been and continues to be?
♪♫ Egnys ♪♫ Oct 2019 10:49am, 11 Oct 2019 29,379 posts	Quote Pin ♪♫ Egnys ♪♫ What is the sentence? It sounds as if you are looking for emphasis. I might add the next word twice, once after been and once after being. It has been xxx and is still being xxx.
ChrisHB Oct 2019 11:05am, 11 Oct 2019 18,399 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB I wrote this in the CQ thread no, that is learning to do crawl because I wanted a challenge to my head and to my coordination. It's been and it's being a tough challenge to both.
swittle Oct 2019 11:07am, 11 Oct 2019 57,442 posts	Quote Pin swittle 'and continues to be...'
ChrisHB Oct 2019 11:17am, 11 Oct 2019 18,400 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB I agree, on reflection. I just got caught up in the puzzle above instead of thinking about the whole picture.
LindsD Oct 2019 11:19am, 11 Oct 2019 29,890 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Agree
GlennR Oct 2019 11:26am, 11 Oct 2019 45,539 posts	Quote Pin GlennR I agree with Switts on that particular construction. For what it’s worth, if I needed to say ‘it is’ twice in the same sentence then I wouldn’t abbreviate both instances.
Neal Oct 2019 11:48am, 11 Oct 2019 105 posts	Quote Pin Neal I think I'd avoid having "it's" being two different things in one sentence and would expand at least one of them. It's fine having more than one in something like "It's not big and it's not clever."