Being appointed
A long-held suspense, fuelled with speculation, has finally ended with former Team India director http://www.cricbuzz.com/profiles/3849/ravi-shastri being appointed coach of the Indian team
http://m.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/95796/road-ahead-is-challenging-but-exciting-india-cricket-head-coach-ravi-shastri
What is the grammatical form and function of "being appointed" here?
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Jigneshbharati has finally ended with former Team India director Ravi Shastri being appointed coach of the Indian team Here you have a gerund clause which is the object of the preposition 'with'. The use of being makes it a non-finite clause, which you need here because the object of a preposition cannot be a finite clause. Compare with another version that uses a finite clause: has finally ended with a certain event.
- Jigneshbharati has finally ended with former Team India director Ravi Shastri being appointed coach of the Indian team Here you have a gerund clause which is the object of the preposition 'with'.
- The use of being makes it a non-finite clause, which you need here because the object of a preposition cannot be a finite clause.
- Compare with another version that uses a finite clause: has finally ended with a certain event.
- The event is this: Former Team India director Ravi Shastri was appointed coach of the Indian team.
- CJ
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Jigneshbharatihas finally ended with former Team India director Ravi Shastri being appointed coach of the Indian team
Here you have a gerund clause which is the object of the preposition 'with'. The use of being makes it a non-finite clause, which you need here because the object of a preposition cannot be a finit
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