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Jackson6612 Posted 19 years ago
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...had his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben...

1font00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01u01b00had his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben not02b02u00 been killed in a car crash in 2002. Although Adam returned to Surrey afterwards, and even resumed his captaincy of the side,01b00 01u00being named02u02b00 as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2003, inevitably his priorities had been changed irrevocably by the tragedy and he retired after an injury-affected 2004 season.02font02br
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00I have rephrased the above paragraph and that rephrased paragraph looks easier to me. I have underlined the lines which are making the above paragraph obscure to me. I know the above paragraph is correct but still I couldn't understand it.02br
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01font00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01b00if his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben had not02b00 been killed in a car crash in 2002. Although Adam returned to Surrey afterwards, and even resumed his captaincy of the side,01b00 was named02b00 as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 2003, inevitably his priorities had been changed irrevocably by the tragedy and he retired after an injury-affected 2004 season.02font0-
  

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1font 00Hi,02font 02br 02br 01font 00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01u 01b 00had his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben not02b 02u 00 been killed in a car crash in 2002. 02font 02br 02br 00I have rephrased the above paragraph and that rephrased paragraph looks easier to me. I have underlined the lines which are making the above paragraph obscure to me.

— Clive

  • 1font 00Hi,02font 02br 02br 01font 00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01u 01b 00had his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben not02b 02u 00 been killed in a car crash in 2002.
  • 02font 02br 02br 00I have rephrased the above paragraph and that rephrased paragraph looks easier to me.
  • I have underlined the lines which are making the above paragraph obscure to me.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01b 00if his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben had not02b 00 01font 00<<< OK 02font 00been killed in a car crash in 2002.
  • 02font 02br 02br 01font 00Best wishes, Clive02font 0-
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1font00Hi,02font02br
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01font00Hollioake's international career may well have resumed in 2003 01u01b00had his brother and Surrey and England team-mate Ben not02b02u00 been killed in a car crash in 2002. Although Adam returned to Surrey afterwards, and even resumed his capta
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01cite10Clive12cite11font10Hi,12font12br
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1font00Hi02font00,02br
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01font00But why couldn't we use01i00 being name02i00 instead of01i00 being named02i00?02font02br
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01font00Couldn't we say: ..., being name as one of ...?02font00 No.02br
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01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
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11font10But why couldn't we use11i10 being name12i10 instead of11i10 being named12i10?12font12br
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11font10Couldn't we say: ..., being name as one of ...
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1font00Hi,02font02br
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01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
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11font10But why couldn't we use11i10 being name12i10 instead of11i10 being named12i10?12font12br
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11font10Couldn't we say: ..., being name as one of ...
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01font00Then what do01b01i00 02i02b00you mean by 01b01i00to name -- participle 'naming'02i02b00 and01b01i00 to be named -- participle 'being named'02i02b00?02font02br
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01cite10Clive12cite12br
10I meant that 'naming' is the present participle of the infinitive 'name', and 'being named' is the present participle of the infinitive 'be named'.12br
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10Dear Clive,02br
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00Now I get your point and I agree 01i00being
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