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Jigneshbharati Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Being disheartened

Far from being disheartened by the loss of quick wickets just before close of play on Friday, Cheteshwar Pujara reckons India can force a win if they bat well on Saturday.
What is the grammatical function of "being" here?
  

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Jigneshbharati grammatical function of "being" here? It's the -ing form (of be ), the only verb form that regularly occurs as the object of a preposition ( from in this text). , Cheteshwar Pujara ....

— CalifJim

  • Jigneshbharati grammatical function of "being" here?
  • It's the -ing form (of be ), the only verb form that regularly occurs as the object of a preposition ( from in this text).
  • , Cheteshwar Pujara ....
  • That's ungrammatical.
  • To make it grammatical, "was" (a form of be ) becomes the -ing form of be ( being ), and "that he" is dropped.
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Jigneshbharatigrammatical function of "being" here?
It's the -ing form (of be), the only verb form that regularly occurs as the object of a preposition (from in this text).

It occurs in this form because you can't write this in English:

Far from that he was disheartened by ..., Cheteshwar Pujara ....
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