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Bmojtaba Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

past participle or pasive voice??

what kind of structure is used in the following sentence?

'Being bitten by the vicious dog was quite a misfortune for Tommy

Being bitten is an abbreviatin of ' he was being bitten' or .....?? and the whole sentence is active or passive voice???

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bmojtaba what kind of structure It's a sentence with a subject ( Being bitten by the vicious dog ), a linking verb ( was ), and a predicate noun phrase ( quite a misfortune for Tommy ). The subject is a gerund phase. The concept can be loosely paraphrased as "The experience of being bitten by the vicious dog", that is, "The experience that he had because he was bitten by the vicious dog".

— CalifJim

  • bmojtaba what kind of structure It's a sentence with a subject ( Being bitten by the vicious dog ), a linking verb ( was ), and a predicate noun phrase ( quite a misfortune for Tommy ).
  • The subject is a gerund phase.
  • The concept can be loosely paraphrased as "The experience of being bitten by the vicious dog", that is, "The experience that he had because he was bitten by the vicious dog".
  • CJ
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bmojtabawhat kind of structure
It's a sentence with a subject (Being bitten by the vicious dog), a linking verb (was), and a predicate noun phrase (quite a misfortune for Tommy).

The subject is a gerund phase. The concept can be loosely paraphrased as "The experience of being bitten by the vicious dog", that is, "The exper
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Is it something look like the following example?

'Running made him weary'

Running is a gerund here and so what kind of the gerund being bitten is ??does it has any special title???
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bmojtabaspecial title?
Gerund types:

Active:
biting
having bitten (perfect)
having been biting (perfect progressive) [ not used much ]

Passive:
being bitten
having been bitten (perfect)
having been being bitten (perfect progressive) [ almost never used ]

So your example is a simple passive gerund.

CJ
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