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Marold Posted 14 years ago
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Having realised

(1) "Having realised that you were going to be late, you should have phoned to change your appointment."

If we wanted to rewrite having realised, it would probably be like this, wouldn't it?
"Because you had realised that you were going to be late......."
(2) "Realising that you were going to be late......."
What would it mean if we wrote the sentence like this above?

And the rewrite of the sentence would be:
"Because you realised you were going to be late......."

Thank you so much.
  

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this sentence is correct as the action took place in the past. so once we omit the agent , we change the past perfect form into a perfective gerund' having realised'

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  • this sentence is correct as the action took place in the past.
  • so once we omit the agent , we change the past perfect form into a perfective gerund' having realised'
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this sentence is correct as the action took place in the past. so once we omit the agent , we change the past perfect form into a perfective gerund' having realised'
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Thank you for your explanation. Emotion: smile Nevertheless, you may have not entirely comprehended my question which deals with what the differen
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Marold(1) "Having realised that you were going to be late, you should have phoned to change your appointment."

If we wanted to rewrite having realised, it would probably be like this, wouldn't it?
"Because you had realised that you were going to be late......."
(2) "Realising that you were going to be late......."
What woul
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Yeah, I was wondering about that for a long time. Thank you a lot, CJ.Emotion: wink
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