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Maria D Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Being
Hello!
Could you help me? Here are two sentences from the script (Total English Intermediate, Cambridge):
One of the oldest being Corpus Christi.
The most important being graduation day.
Why is that? Is it because the text is a conversation, because it is possible to say being (= is) in oral speech?
Thank you!
Could you help me? Here are two sentences from the script (Total English Intermediate, Cambridge):
One of the oldest being Corpus Christi.
The most important being graduation day.
Why is that? Is it because the text is a conversation, because it is possible to say being (= is) in oral speech?
Thank you!
Top answer
Those are not sentences as there are no main verbs. What came before?
- Those are not sentences as there are no main verbs.
- What came before?
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Those are not sentences as there are no main verbs.
What came before?
What came before?
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1) Several date back to the 13th and 14th centuries. One of the oldest being Corpus Christi.
2) Students wear traditional black gowns on special occasions. The most important being graduation day.
There are full stops between the sentences, in subtitles as well, and the speaker says so.
2) Students wear traditional black gowns on special occasions. The most important being graduation day.
There are full stops between the sentences, in subtitles as well, and the speaker says so.
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Is this an exercise to correct bad punctuation?
I don't care what the source is - the grammar is incorrect.
'Several date back to the 13th and 14th centuries, one of the oldest being Corpus Christi.'
'. . .special occasions, the most important. . . .'
I don't care what the source is - the grammar is incorrect.
'Several date back to the 13th and 14th centuries, one of the oldest being Corpus Christi.'
'. . .special occasions, the most important. . . .'
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