Talk:Soulflayer Canyon/@comment-32773874-20170930182333/@comment-33524548-20171030185130

Technically, it is incorrect. "...the other has [been] broken." This particular past participle requires continuity in the past, which would be illogical in this context, because you can't keep breaking a bridge, i.e., "She has been coughing since yesterday." Its implication is that it happened in the past and it still is happening.

Actions that can only happen once would fare grammatically better if they use the past past participle "...the other /had/ [been] broken," or "She had been stricken by the cough, but no longer."

If its state of dilapidation is continued, the present tense should be used, i.e., "...the other /is/ broken." It implies that the bridge was, and still is, broken.

Using the past tense "...the other /was/ broken," only implies the action happened in the past.