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Anon f8r Posted 18 years ago
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Having been stunned, being stunned,stunned
0 Having been stunned by the news, they burst into tears. 02 br
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00 Being stunned by the news, they burst into tears. 02 br
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00 1. Are the above sentences grammatically correct? If so, do they have the same meaning? 02 br
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00 2. Is it true that the word "burst" here can be either past tense or present tense? 02 br
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00 3. I believe that they are all in passive voice. What are their tenses? What are their sentence structure? 02 br
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00 Thank you in advance. 0-
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00 Being stunned by the news, they burst into tears. 02 br
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00 Stunned by the news, they burst into tears. 02 br
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00 1. Are the above sentences grammatically correct? If so, do they have the same meaning? 02 br
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00 2. Is it true that the word "burst" here can be either past tense or present tense? 02 br
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00 3. I believe that they are all in passive voice. What are their tenses? What are their sentence structure? 02 br
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00 Thank you in advance. 0-
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0 1. Of your three versions, the last is the most natural, and the second is actually unnatural. Stunned is usually metaphoric (greatly surprised) but "having been stunned" sounds more literal, like a taser would stun you. 02 br
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00 2. Already answered 02 br
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00 3. They are not passive. The main clause is active: They burst into tears. 02 br
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00 2. Already answered 02 br
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00 3. They are not passive. The main clause is active: They burst into tears. 02 br
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