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Sdasd tont Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Can I just delete these two "being" ?
Here is a section of an article:
Poor Franz Kafka. His lifetime being misunderstood by his family has been followed by an even longer literary afterlife being misunderstood by the world. According to a new biography by Reiner Stach, Kafka was not the neurotic, world-removed writer of, say, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1960s story, “A Friend of Kafka”, in which a friend says Kafka’s inhibitions “impeded him in everything”. Nor was he scarred solely by a difficult relationship with his overbearing father, an idea that Alan Bennett’s play “Kafka’s Dick” toyed with in the 1980s.
Is it correct to transform the sentence above into "His lifetime misunderstood by his family has been followed by an even longer literary afterlife misunderstood by the world"? Are two of them equal?
THANKS!
Poor Franz Kafka. His lifetime being misunderstood by his family has been followed by an even longer literary afterlife being misunderstood by the world. According to a new biography by Reiner Stach, Kafka was not the neurotic, world-removed writer of, say, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s 1960s story, “A Friend of Kafka”, in which a friend says Kafka’s inhibitions “impeded him in everything”. Nor was he scarred solely by a difficult relationship with his overbearing father, an idea that Alan Bennett’s play “Kafka’s Dick” toyed with in the 1980s.
Is it correct to transform the sentence above into "His lifetime misunderstood by his family has been followed by an even longer literary afterlife misunderstood by the world"? Are two of them equal?
THANKS!
Top answer
It is an awkward and borderline question, which may be why no one answered it last time. Both versions could be debatable, the second one perhaps more so.
- It is an awkward and borderline question, which may be why no one answered it last time.
- Both versions could be debatable, the second one perhaps more so.
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It is an awkward and borderline question, which may be why no one answered it last time. Both versions could be debatable, the second one perhaps more so.
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I am sorry for that.
The reason I ask this question is that When I look through the words "being misunderstood" in this sentence, it occurs to me the usages of PARTICIPLE CONSTRUCTIONS in complex sentence which I have read in Longman English Grammar. I am still confused about these usages.
Or, let me put it in this way:
(1)We prefer the house painted white.
The reason I ask this question is that When I look through the words "being misunderstood" in this sentence, it occurs to me the usages of PARTICIPLE CONSTRUCTIONS in complex sentence which I have read in Longman English Grammar. I am still confused about these usages.
Or, let me put it in this way:
(1)We prefer the house painted white.
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sdasd tontOr, let me put it in this way:(1)We prefer the house painted white.(2)We prefer the house being painted white.Compare two of these sentence: sentence (1) means we like the house which is white (painted before), whereas sentence (2) means the house we like is being painted. Am I right?Yes, (1) would normally mean that the house is already painted whi
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