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JungKim Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

A perfect use of a past participle without the auxiliary verb “have”

An article titled "Hulk Hogan lawyer tells SN: Gawker sex tape a 'massive' invasion of wrestler's privacy" has this:

Hogan's $100 million lawsuit against Gawker for posting a private video of him having sex with a friend's wife heads to trial at a Florida state court March 7. If Hogan (aka Terry Bollea) wins, Gawker could be ruined financially — or forced to sell.

Now fallen on hard times after his WWE glory days, Hogan is looking forward to his day in court with Florida jurors who might take a jaundiced eye toward a New York media outlet that traffics in gossip and rumors.

In the last sentence, the past participle "fallen" is a perfect use, and you can start the sentence with "having" as follows:
Having now fallen on hard times after his WWE glory days, Hogan is looking forward to...

Am I right?

Is this dropping of "having" commonplace?
Can such a dropping be done to other verbs than "fall"?

If it can, I'd like to have some examples of a perfect use of a past participle (other than "fall") without the auxiliary verb "have".

  

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JungKimIn the last sentence, the past participle "fallen" is a perfect use, and you can start the sentence with "having" as follows:Having (now) fallen on hard times after his WWE glory days, Hogan is looking forward to...Am I right?

Right.

CJ

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JungKimIs this dropping of "having" commonplace?Can such a dropping be done to other verbs than "fall"?

I wouldn't say 'commonplace' at all. There are probably extremely few verbs that occur in this pattern, and even those that can don't always sound particularly idiomatic.

?Risen from his death bed, the man began to speak with everyone as if he
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It's not "having now fallen...". It's " Hogan is now fallen..." in parallel with "Hogan is looking...".

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How about "I'm fallen in love."

Now (he is) fallen in love, he wants to do nothing but spending time with her.

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Thanks, what I'm trying to say is that "fallen" is an adj here not a verb in past participle.

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