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Wholegrain Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

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He is very rich, (what is/are the word(s) elided here if any?) having many investments abroad.

Is there an ellipsis here?

He is very rich, having many foreign investment markets, having more than 50 enterprises abroad.

Is the above construction correct?
  

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I am asking these questions because it is as if having (something) is a construction that only serves as an explanation to something.
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HAVING = TO "BECAUSE IT HAS"?
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He is very rich, having many investments abroad.

He is very rich because / since he has many investments abroad.
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He is very rich, having many investments abroad.

No ellipsis. "many investments abroad" substantiates and elaborates the statement that he is very rich. The cause-and-effect principle is somewhat blurry. It tends to suggest that he is rich because of the investments, but he might have the investments because he is rich, or the two might simply go hand-in-hand.

He
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But can you say: He is very rich, having many investments abroad, having many contacts abroad.

unlike what you can do with (because/since he has)?
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Mr WordyHe is very rich, having many investments abroad.

No ellipsis. "many investments abroad" substantiates and elaborates the statement that he is very rich. The cause-and-effect principle is somewhat blurry. It tends to suggest that he is rich because of the investments, but he might have the investments because he is rich, or the two might simpl
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wholegrainBut can you say: He is very rich, having many investments abroad, having many contacts abroad.
You can say it, but normally you wouldn't. You would only say this if you were deliberately seeking a distinctive stylistic effect. The sense of linked cause-and-effect does not successfully carry through the sentence in the way that I think you are i
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wholegrainHe is very rich, having many foreign investment markets
You can have many foreign investments, and you can invest in many foreign markets, but you cannot "have many foreign investment markets".
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Honestly, I don't know what it even means, but I heard it here:

China has also made initial progress in making investments abroad. China has more than 160 foreign investment markets, and 5,793 investment enterprises outside Chinese territory.
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wholegrainHonestly, I don't know what it even means, but I heard it here:

China has also made initial progress in making investments abroad. China has more than 160 foreign investment markets, and 5,793 investment enterprises outside Chinese territory. China’s total agreed investments have come to 6.5 billion US dollars-worth. These overseas i
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