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Lucas21c Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Moralize

In surveys, we found that it's actually wealthier individuals who are more likely to moralize greed being good, and that the pursuit of self-interest is favorable and moral.

1. I extracted the above sentence from a lecture given by a native English professor. However, could you check whether the underlined part is grammatically right?

2. How about 'moralize greed as being good' instead of 'moralize greed being good?'

3. How about 'justify greed as being good?' Is it also acceptable 'justify greed being good?'
  

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All are fine. They are different ways of expressing the same thing.

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  • They are different ways of expressing the same thing.
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All are fine. They are different ways of expressing the same thing. Emotion: smile
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lucas21ccould you check whether the underlined part is grammatically right?
In a lecture, yes.
lucas21c2. How about 'moralize greed as being good' instead of 'moralize greed being good?'
The problem is the verb 'moralize', which does not really mean 'make moral', though the lecture has used it that way ad hoc.
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"greed being good"

It's a non-finite clause where greed is a subject, being a predicator and good a complement.
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Is 'justify greed as being good' wrong? If so, could you give me a corrected one?
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lucas21cIs 'justify greed as being good' wrong? If so, could you give me a corrected one?
It is wrong on ethical grounds, it's grammatical, though.

"as" is a preposition; "being good" (a non-finite clause) the object of the preposition.
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