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Rvw Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Gerund or participle?

"My ice cream being eaten made me angry."

Is being a gerund and the subject of the sentence, or is My ice cream being eaten a participle phrase (controlled by eaten) and constituting the subject of the sentence?
  

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It's got to be the whole phrase (nonfinite clause) as the subject, I think, RVW. ) 'Being' can hardly occur as a noun, outside of 'Being is preferable to non-being', can it?

— Mister Micawber

  • It's got to be the whole phrase (nonfinite clause) as the subject, I think, RVW.
  • ) 'Being' can hardly occur as a noun, outside of 'Being is preferable to non-being', can it?
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It's got to be the whole phrase (nonfinite clause) as the subject, I think, RVW. (I'm not familiar with 'controlled by' here-- that means that 'eat' is the main verb of the clause?) 'Being' can hardly occur as a noun, outside of 'Being is preferable to non-being', can it?
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"My ice cream being eaten made me angry."

"Being" is a participle and not a gerund. The above sentence can be rewritten as, "My ice cream (which was)being eaten made me angry."
"My ice cream(which was) being eaten" is the subject of the verb "made".
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"My ice cream being eaten made me angry."

I think the sentence is wrong anyway. The apostrophe is missing.

"My ice cream's being eaten made me angry."

"The eating of my ice cream made me angry."
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Hi Dehbaash again. Hi rvw, Mister Micawber.

Can I say:
#My ice cream being eaten, I got angry.
or
#My ice cream being eaten, there is no ice cream.

And these are "absolute participial constructions," ..right?
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English is a completely foreign language for me. But to tell the truth the first sentence, [My ice cream being
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Hi Eimai_Anglos,

I think your second sentence is problematic.

-Somebody ate my ice cream, which made me angry.

-My ice cream was eaten, which made me angry.

- "My ice cream's being eaten made me angry."

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"I don't like people laughing at me = I don't like being laughed at"




a) "I don't like people laughing at me = I don't like being laughed at"

b) "I don't like somebody eating my icecream
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Dehbaash wrote

a) "I don't like people laughing at me = I don't like being laughed at"

b) "I don't like somebody eating my icecream = I don't like my icecream being eaten by somebody"

c)The eating of my icecream makes me angry = my icecrea
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Rvw"My ice cream being eaten made me angry."

Is being a gerund and the subject of the sentence, or is My ice cream being eaten a participle phrase (controlled by eaten) and constituting the subject of the sentence?

I'd agree that the whole 'my ice cream being eaten' phrase is the subject of the sentence.

It was
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correct the following sentence---------

1- hoping to hear from you soon , yours sincerely.
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Yours is a rather sloppy way (nothing personal-- I know it is a popular habit) of writing:

I hope to hear from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Anyway, in your sentence fragment, 'hoping' is a participle.
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