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Abdul quddus Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Being+past participle

I was looking up the dictionary and found the meaning of salaried as 'being paid a salary".could u please explain the grammer of being+past participle here plus meaning of this sentence???????
  

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It is a passive voice continuous aspect formation. Here it is not a sentence or part of one, since it is only a phrase used for definition, but it can appear in utterances in these forms: He is being paid a salary by the government . (passive voice, present continuous verb form) Being paid a salary, he was able to afford a new car.

— Mister Micawber

  • It is a passive voice continuous aspect formation.
  • Here it is not a sentence or part of one, since it is only a phrase used for definition, but it can appear in utterances in these forms: He is being paid a salary by the government .
  • (passive voice, present continuous verb form) Being paid a salary, he was able to afford a new car.
  • (passive voice, nonfinite adverbial clause) He likes being paid a salary.
  • (Gerundial phrase, object of 'likes')
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It is a passive voice continuous aspect formation. Here it is not a sentence or part of one, since it is only a phrase used for definition, but it can appear in utterances in these forms:

He is being paid a salary by the government. (passive voice, present continuous verb form)
Being paid a salary, he was able to afford a new car. (passive voice, nonfinite adverbial c
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