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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Is this sentence OK?

After having reminded myself of the time that had Mary supplant Edward as being the interlocutor of the senate in which I preside, both Elysnai and I saw her as having a disposition replete with such ripe maturity; the likes of which can be found only in the most versed of our coterie here in Maldur.

Is this OK? How would YOU rewrite this?

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Oh I found a mistake! LOL! Should be ourselves.

— Anonymous

  • Oh I found a mistake!
  • LOL!
  • Should be ourselves.
  • Sorry.
  • After having reminded ourselves of the time that had Mary supplant Edward as being the interlocutor of our seminar, both Elysnai and I saw her as having a disposition replete with such ripe maturity; the likes of which can be found only in the most accomplished of our coterie here in Maldur.
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Oh I found a mistake! LOL! Should be ourselves. Sorry. Emotion: sad

After having reminded ourselves of the time that had Mary supplant Ed
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[being the interlocutor of our seminar] - is a noun (non-finite) clause, object of the preposition "as".
Traditional grammar would label "being" as a gerund. Modern grammars label it as a non-finite verb in the noun clause.

[the interlocutor of our seminar] - a noun phrase, object of the preposition "as"
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I don't really understand what you just wrote. Am I right in thinking that 'as being' is archaic and 'as' is the hedged (elided) offspring?
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Anonymous Am I right in thinking that 'as being' is archaic and 'as' is the hedged (elided) offspring?
No. It's just two different ways to express the same thing, one with a clause, the other with a noun phrase.
The sentence is already quite formal in style.
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