Being born
By taking too low a dose, mums-to-be are at higher risk of their babies being born with these defects, Dr Sarah Jarvis told The Sun.
I read the above at theSun.co.uk
Please explain the grammatical form and function of "being" in "being born...
Is "being born" a passive structure ?
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Jigneshbharati By taking too low a dose, mums-to-be are at higher risk of their babies being born with these defects, Dr Sarah Jarvis told The Sun. The expression is to be born: He was born in 1998. In your sentence the preposition 'of' requires a gerund like all prepositions do.
- Jigneshbharati By taking too low a dose, mums-to-be are at higher risk of their babies being born with these defects, Dr Sarah Jarvis told The Sun.
- The expression is to be born: He was born in 1998.
- In your sentence the preposition 'of' requires a gerund like all prepositions do.
- The gerund is 'being'.
- 'Their babies' is the subject of the gerund.
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JigneshbharatiBy taking too low a dose, mums-to-be are at higher risk of their babies being born with these defects, Dr Sarah Jarvis told The Sun.
The expression is to be born: He was born in 1998. In your sentence the preposition 'of' requires a gerund like all prepositions do. The gerund is 'being'. 'Their babies' is the subject of th
0I can see you're having difficulty with such constructions as you've asked the same kind of question many times before.
"Being" is a verb and its function is predicator, i.e, head of the clause "their babies being born with these defects"
"Being born with these defects" is the full predicate, a non-finite verb phrase with "their babies" as its subject.
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