Be made "ing"

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Hello, everyone,We very often see the pattern - "be made ~ing" such in "The movie was made using the a lot of special effects.".Which will be the correct analysis for this pattern in the followings?;1) The movie was made when using the a lot of special effects. (a kind of adverbial clause with the conjunction - 'when' left out)2) The movie was made of using the a lot of special effects. (the preposition 'of' has been left out, which shows the construction material)3) The movie was made by means of using the a lot of special effects. (the phrase - 'by means of' has been left out)Would hope to hear your valuable comments, while I'm inclined to above 2).

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

deepcosmosWhich will be the correct analysis for this pattern in the followings?;

Number 3 is the meaning (the other two are not), but nothing has been left out. The participle does that all by itself.

You have an extra "the" in there that has to be removed.

CalifJim · Answer

deepcosmosWe very often see the pattern - "be made ~ing" such in "The movie was made using ~~the~~ a lot of special effects.". [Just one period, please.]

As shown.

deepcosmosWhich ~~will~~ would be the correct analysis for this pattern in the ~~followings?~~; following?[No "s" and no semicolon, please.]

deepcosmos1) The movie was made when using the a lot of special effects. (a kind of adverbial clause with the conjunction - 'when' left out)
2) The movie was made of using the a lot of special effects. (the preposition 'of' has been left out, which shows the construction material)
3) The movie was made by means of using the a lot of special effects. (the phrase - 'by means of' has been left out)

None of those really hit the mark. It's more like

They used a lot of special effects [in the movie. / during the process of making the movie.]

Paraphrasing these participle clauses can be a headache.

A purist would point out that the sentence itself is defective because the subject of the main clause and the implied subject of the participle clause do not match. Fixing it would require something like the following:

They made the movie using a lot of special effects.

(THEY made the movie. THEY used a lot of special effects.)

In the original strictly speaking the movie used a lot of special effects.

deepcosmosWe very often see the pattern - "be made ~ing" such in "The movie was made using the a lot of special effects.".

A small point. You say the pattern occurs very often with ~ing in general, but the example you give with 'using' is really about the only verb that is used in that pattern with any frequency. It's hard to find others like "was made going", "was made seeing", "was made doing", etc.

CJ

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