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Ugarcila Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Question with a clause.

Hi, there!

I was wondering if you could help me explain the following clause. "Having seen the movie", in the sentence: "Having seen the movie, we were interested in other activities". What is their grammatical construction? Why are used both the present and past participle?

Thanks for taking a few minutes.
Uriel.
  

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Ugarcila Why are used both the present and past participle used? This is a participial clause. Here are the two most commonly used forms: seeing the movie - at the same time as the time expressed by the main verb having seen the movie - before the time expressed by the main verb Ugarcila Having seen the movie, we were interested in other activities.

— CalifJim

  • Ugarcila Why are used both the present and past participle used?
  • This is a participial clause.
  • Here are the two most commonly used forms: seeing the movie - at the same time as the time expressed by the main verb having seen the movie - before the time expressed by the main verb Ugarcila Having seen the movie, we were interested in other activities.
  • Thus, this sentence is similar to: Once we had already seen the movie, we were then interested in other activities.
  • CJ
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UgarcilaWhy are used both the present and past participle used?
This is a participial clause. Here are the two most commonly used forms:

seeing the movie - at the same time as the time expressed by the main verb
having seen the movie - before the time expressed by the main verb
UgarcilaHaving seen
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