Going OR gone, which one is grammatically correct in this sentence?

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I am not a native speaker, who studies English as a foreign language.

I need help from the natives.

We can prevent growth gone wrong within us.

(?) why not 'going' in here??

Reading certain texts, I find that sentence, which seems grammatically wrong, I think.

Why and how is 'GONE' used after growth?

I mean, is it grammatically correct and no problem to write 'growth gone wrong'?

'Something goes wrong', not 'Something is gone wrong', is the normally used form, as I know.

If so, is it correct to write 'Something going wrong', not 'Something gone wrong'??

I've googled 'gone wrong' and found that 'gone wrong' form is used in many texts.

But I am just curious about whether wrting 'sth gone wrong' is GRAMMATICALLY allowed or not.

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Let me first try to understand the writer's intended meaning. Is this, for example, in a medical context that discusses a cancerous growth?

Clive

Anonymous · Answer

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness in one's life.

When a salamander loese a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way, when a human geing sutters

an emotional loss thatis not properly dealt with, the body often responds by developing a new growth.

It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth, we can prevent growth GONE wrong within us."

It's the whole paragraph.

Anonymous · Answer

Can it be different according to the writer's intended meaning?

Nocy · Answer

Now I log in.

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness

in one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,

when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often

responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,

we can prevent growth gone wrong within us."

It's the whole paragraph.

Nocy · Answer

Now I log in.

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness

in one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,

when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often

responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,

we can prevent growth gone wrong within us."

It's the whole paragraph.

Clive · Answer

Hi,

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness

in one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,

when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often

responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,

we can prevent growth gone wrong within us."

Think of it as a shortened form of -

" . . . we can prevent growth [ that has ] gone wrong within us."

Clive

Nocy · Answer

CliveHi,"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptinessin one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body oftenresponds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,we can prevent growth gone wrong within us." Think of it as a shortened form of - " . . . we can prevent growth [ that has ] gone wrong within us." Clive

Is it possible to omit 'that have'??

As I know, the forms like 'relative pronoun + be', for example 'that is/are' or 'that have/has been',

can be omitted.

FOR EXAMPLE,

He meets the girl (that has been) interested in him. <- (O) BUT..

He meets the girl that has done many things for him. <- He meets the girl done many things for him. (?????????)

According to your explanation, in above sentence 'that has' also could be omitted, which is ungrammatic.

The sentence I asked about first seems to be used expressioin and grammatically no problem.

But your this '[that has]' explanation is not proper.. or I'm stupid..

Bluesoya · Answer

nocyNow I log in.

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness
in one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,
when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often
responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,
we can prevent growth gone wrong within us."

It's the whole paragraph.

In this context, the author is trying to say if people can react to the loss, they can prevent ~~growth gone wrong within them~~ [cancer].

And precisely in this context, growth going wrong within us just won't work. It will means... if people can react to the loss, they can prevent ~~growth going wrong within them~~ [literally a growth that is going wrong].

It's not a grammar issue here. It's just how the author's style of writing and how he/she wish to phrase it to fit into the sentence context.

Hope this helps.

Clive · Answer

Hi,

"One of the most common precursors of cancer is a traumatic loss or a feeling of emptiness
in one's life. When a salamander loses a limb, it grows a new one. In an analogous way,
when a human being suffers an emotional loss that is not properly dealt with, the body often
responds by developing a new growth. It appears that if we can react to loss with personal growth,
we can prevent growth gone wrong within us."

Let me try again. I am referring to Michael Swan's Practical English Usage, specifically the sections on the position of adjectives.

When a participle is used as an adjective, it can sometimes come before and sometimes after the noun, with different shades of meaning.

eg Tom saw a broken window. Here, 'broken' describes the appearance of the window.

eg The window broken yesterday was Tom's. Here, 'broken' refers more to the action of breaking, in other words it functions more like a verb describing the action of breaking.

Your context is a bit harder to grasp than the simple idea of 'a window broken', but 'growth gone wrong' seems to me to be similar.

Clive

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