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Grammar
Participle -ed
The car repaired by the mechanic will be sold.
I have two questions about the above sentence.
1. the participle "repaired by the mechanic". Can it be interpreted as the following?
The car that had been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that was repaired by the mechanic...
The car that has been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that is been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that will be repaired by the mechanic...
2. if the above interpretations are correct, how will they accord with the last half of the sentence "will be sold"? Should "will be sold" be changed to other tenses to correspond to the interpretations? Thank you very much.
I have two questions about the above sentence.
1. the participle "repaired by the mechanic". Can it be interpreted as the following?
The car that had been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that was repaired by the mechanic...
The car that has been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that is been repaired by the mechanic...
The car that will be repaired by the mechanic...
2. if the above interpretations are correct, how will they accord with the last half of the sentence "will be sold"? Should "will be sold" be changed to other tenses to correspond to the interpretations? Thank you very much.
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1. ' possibly works with 'was sold' or 'has been sold', but yet seems awkward to me. The past perfect is simply superfluous here, as the precedence of the events is already established by the form of the nonfinite verb ('repaired')-- rather than 'that is /was being repaired by the mechanic'.
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- ' possibly works with 'was sold' or 'has been sold', but yet seems awkward to me.
- The past perfect is simply superfluous here, as the precedence of the events is already established by the form of the nonfinite verb ('repaired')-- rather than 'that is /was being repaired by the mechanic'.
- The repair is complete before the sale.
- 'The car that is been repaired' is not grammatical.
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1. The participle in "the car repaired by the mechanic will be sold' I can envision interpreted only as the following:
'The car that/which was repaired by the mechanic'
'The car that/which has been repaired by the mechanic'
'The car that had been repaired by the mechanic.' possibly works with 'was sold' or 'has been sold', but yet seems awkward to me. The past perfe
'The car that/which was repaired by the mechanic'
'The car that/which has been repaired by the mechanic'
'The car that had been repaired by the mechanic.' possibly works with 'was sold' or 'has been sold', but yet seems awkward to me. The past perfe
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