“Never fails to get a gasp from out front,” Rupert said. “Always makes me laugh to hear it. I have to take care, though, that Jack and his poor old mother don’t get in his way. Can’t have them being smashed by a falling giant.” (Jack, his mother and the giant all three of them are marionettes.)
What’s the difference of meaning between ‘being smashed’ and ‘smashed’ in the sentence?
Top answer
There is no real difference in this particular sentence.
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There is no real difference in this particular sentence.
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