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Diamondrg Posted 19 years ago
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0 The work ----, we went home.02br
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00The answer must be C but is the sentence correct? 02br
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02br 02br 00It could also be "The work having been completed, we went home"0-

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  • 02br 02br 00It could also be "The work having been completed, we went home"0-
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0 Yes.02br
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01cite10Feebs1112cite10Yes.12br
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10What about "the work being completed" ?0-
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0What about "the work being completed" ? -- OK0-
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Hi, I'm wondering how a professional English teacher would explain why "the work (being) completed," is correct as well as "the work having been completed." As "we went home" took place a while after the work was completed, I thought there must be a word explicitly telling us about the time lapse.
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I thought there must be a word explicitly telling us about the time lapse.
No. There doesn't have to be such a word.

The work ( [being / having been] ) completed, we went home

shows a less explicit relationship than the following, but can be roughly paraphrased by any of them.

Once the work was completed, we went home.
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