Are there invisible “being” in English?

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Hello friends. I have a serious problem that I hope you will solve.

Although There is no “being” in some sentences, They are meant as there is “being. Let’s look at examples.

1-) You should meet someone in Paris.

What does it mean?

Does it mean that

you should meet someone who is in Paris

or

In Paris, you should meet someone.

They both can be understood.

2-) I met some people from England with my friends in Istanbul.

(You will understand easier than me, but I am not native speaker)

What does it mean?

It seems like

“ I met some people being from England, with my friends in Istanbul. “

or

“ In Istanbul, I met some people being from England with my friends. “

What do we understand it?

3-) I’ve some friends with lux hotels.

There is no “who are” but actually there is.

I’ve some friends who are with lux hotels.

4-) Rules against the democracy instead of terrorists will be defeated.

What does it mean?

I think,

“ Rules which are against the democracy instead of terrorists ...”

Do they change as connected to “meaning of the sentence” ?

Thank you so much.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Jawel1-) You should meet someone in Paris.

Here are two possible meanings.

a) I expect that you will meet someone when you are in Paris.
b) There is a certain person in Paris, and I think that it would be a good idea for you to meet that person.

Jawel2-) I met some people from England with my friends in Istanbul.

Here are three possible meanings.

a) I met some English people who were visiting Istanbul, and my friends were with me in Istanbul at the time this happened.
b) I met some English people who were with my friends when I was in Istanbul.
c) While traveling with my friends who live in Istanbul, we met some English people.

Jawel3-) I’ve (or I have) some friends with luxury hotels.

a) I have some friends who own luxury hotels.
b) I have some friends who are employed in/by luxury hotels.

Jawel4-) Rules against the democracy instead of terrorists will be defeated.

I interpret this as follows:

Rules which are made to impede democracy instead of rules which are made to impede terrorists will be defeated.

JawelAlthough there is no “being” in some sentences, they are meant as if they had there is“being".

Not 'being' literally, but some form of the verb to be, like is, are, was, or were. However, this observation is not really very helpful because it is true of so many situations in all languages. There is nothing special about English in this way.

"the red truck" refers to the truck which is red. The combination of noun and adjective comes up thousands of times in all languages. I don't see it as a way of explaining sentences with ambiguous meanings, if that's what you are trying to do.

CJ

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