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Vijay1010 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Meaning of "Being" & "to have been" of following sentence

Please explain the meaning of underlined one?

Three children were born from the wed lock and are at present living with their father. Out of them two are males, their respective years of birth being 1973 and 1980 and the third is a female born in the year 1976. On 28-8- 1985 a petition under section 13-B of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereafter referred to as the Act’) seeking divorce by mutual consent was received by the court of the Additional District Judge, Amritsar purported to have been failed jointly by the two spouses.













  

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" Their respective years of birth are 1973 and 1980 . This form is often used formally in appositives and parenthetical phrases. You won't find it in casual conversation, except by language freaks.

— Avangi

  • " Their respective years of birth are 1973 and 1980 .
  • This form is often used formally in appositives and parenthetical phrases.
  • You won't find it in casual conversation, except by language freaks.
  • I'm not really sure what it's called.
  • How does one person fail another?
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The lexical meaning of "being" here is "is/are."
Their respective years of birth are 1973 and 1980.

This form is often used formally in appositives and parenthetical phrases. You won't find it in casual conversation, except by language freaks. I'm not really sure what it's called.

How does one person fail another? I was counting on you, and you fai
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This is my analytical of the passage. Apparently, this is a legal document which I am not qualified to interprpet. However, from an English grammar standpoint, I have two cents' worth to share.

This long sentence has a few flaws in it. The subjects are the three children, but the sentence ended with " their father". The next line begun with, " Out of them " which is ambiguous. Is the fat
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vijay1010Out of them two are males, their respective years of birth being 1973 and 1980
Two of them are males. The birth year of one male is 1973; the birth year of the other male is 1980.
vijay1010On 28-8- 1985 a petition under section 13-B of Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereafter referred to as the Act’) see
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CalifJimThe emergency room was said to have been closed at midnight.
Hi, Jim,
Could you relate this to a non-infinitive structure, such as:

The emergency room has been closed at midnight for as long as I can remember.

Does the infinitive structure have the same ambiguity as my sentence, vis a vis "to be" plus adjective vs.
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I think that's hillarious, by the way. "Failed" is a typo. Emotion: headbang

On 28-8-1985 a petion was received by the court, purp
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On 28-8-1985 a petion was received by the court, purported to have been filed jointly by the two spouses.

By the way, is the underlined a participial phrase which happens to include an infinitive phrase?

I hope the poor horse will forgive me when we meet in the great beyond.
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AvangiDoes the infinitive structure have the same ambiguity as my sentence
Yes, and I would have used a different sentence had I noticed the ambiguity! (My intention was to use closed non-adjectivally.)
AvangiI know we've had several threads in the past about "closed" as an adjective vs. a verb, but does that apply to the infini
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Avangiis the underlined a participial phrase which happens to include an infinitive phrase?
That sounds reasonable to me.

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CalifJimNote that a typical adjective should be able to take very: very interested, but not *very filed.
Good point. Thanks.
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("Very failed" seems to work.) Emotion: happy
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