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Mr-Taciturn Posted 19 years ago
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1i00Children ..........in cities cope well with the stresses of urban life.02br
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02i01b00a-to bring up02br
00b-brought up02br
00c-bringing up02br
00d-having brought up02br
00e-have been brought up02b02br
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01b00Which one is the best for the blank? I 'll be glad If it is with explanation.02b02br
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01b00Thanks in advance..02b0-
  

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0Mr. T, what do your instincts tell you is the best? 02br
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00(My actual favorite is not listed: Children who have been brought up...)0-
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0 01i00The parents bring up the children.02i02br
00 To describe the children you need a passive construction:02br
01i00The children are 01u00brought up02u00 (by the parents)02i00.02br
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00 There's only one choice that has that kind of construction (a past participle): 01b00b
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0Of course B is the correct one. But , 02br
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00What if we had another option as 01i00having been brought up02i00 ? Would there be two correct and equivalent options?0-
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0 I would say that "having been brought up" is grammatically okay, but unnecessarily wordy and somewhat awkward. Since the question asks the 01i00best02i00 choice, the simply "brought up" is therefore better than another grammatical, but wordy, choice. 0-
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01cite10Grammar Geek12cite10I would say that "having been brought up" is grammatically okay, but unnecessarily wordy and somewhat awkward. Since the question asks the 11i10best12i10 choice, the simply "brought up" is therefore better than another grammatical, but wordy, choice.12blockquote
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