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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Having decided

Could you please explain why such structure "having decided" is used here? And actually I don't know what it means.

"And with any project like that you continue to work trying to get success, having decided to do it."
  

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That is some shaky writing. "To work trying to get success" sounds like something a non-native speaker would say. Anyway, "having decided to do it" has a tacit subject, "you".

— Enoon

  • That is some shaky writing.
  • "To work trying to get success" sounds like something a non-native speaker would say.
  • Anyway, "having decided to do it" has a tacit subject, "you".
  • It is not the "you" from earlier in the sentence.
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That is some shaky writing. "To work trying to get success" sounds like something a non-native speaker would say. Anyway, "having decided to do it" has a tacit subject, "you". It is not the "you" from earlier in the sentence.
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Thanks enoon, but "you having decided" is not make sense for me either. The tense and the meaning. It is neither gerund nor continues tense.
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It's a participle clause. The BBC has a good article about them ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/learnit/learnitv305.shtml ). They are an everyda
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Thanks for your time and reply. So it means "because you have decided to do it". Right?
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