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Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
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The analysis of a text #3
The following is the summary of a Korean drama.
More than a thousand years ago from the present time, Puyeoju is the Baek Jae Empire's princess. Unlike other princesses, she is active and skilled in the arts and in sports. When the Baek Jae Empire crumbles due to a spy, Kum-hwa, she runs away with her bodyguard General Guishil Ari and falls in love with him in the meanwhile. The new conquerer Kim Yu-suk is also in love with the princess, but only receives hate in return. In a desperate attempt to win her, he kills Ari, but the princess runs away and jumps off a cliff to kill herself. While falling, she travels more than one thousand years into the future, which is our present time of 2003. Only she remains to be who she was, and she encounters Ari to be an aimless fashion designer Kang In-chul with a warm heart and bad temper. Although he is annoyed at her ignorance of the present world, he comes to fall in love with the princess again. Fujiwara Tatsuji is the son of the Fujiwara dynasty, and once again is mysteriously attracted to the princess. Only she knows the past that holds all three of them together, but will things become an exact replica of the situation back then?
I think he is now working as a fashion designer, and that "to be" indicates the future thing in the case such as the underlined phrase.
So I was wondering why it is "to be," not "being."
Thank you in advance for your help.
More than a thousand years ago from the present time, Puyeoju is the Baek Jae Empire's princess. Unlike other princesses, she is active and skilled in the arts and in sports. When the Baek Jae Empire crumbles due to a spy, Kum-hwa, she runs away with her bodyguard General Guishil Ari and falls in love with him in the meanwhile. The new conquerer Kim Yu-suk is also in love with the princess, but only receives hate in return. In a desperate attempt to win her, he kills Ari, but the princess runs away and jumps off a cliff to kill herself. While falling, she travels more than one thousand years into the future, which is our present time of 2003. Only she remains to be who she was, and she encounters Ari to be an aimless fashion designer Kang In-chul with a warm heart and bad temper. Although he is annoyed at her ignorance of the present world, he comes to fall in love with the princess again. Fujiwara Tatsuji is the son of the Fujiwara dynasty, and once again is mysteriously attracted to the princess. Only she knows the past that holds all three of them together, but will things become an exact replica of the situation back then?
I think he is now working as a fashion designer, and that "to be" indicates the future thing in the case such as the underlined phrase.
So I was wondering why it is "to be," not "being."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" Neither form works. The passage has other grammatical troubles. I would expect this as good English: Only she remains who she was, and she encounters Ari as an aimless fashion designer, Kang In-chul, with a warm heart and bad temper.
- " Neither form works.
- The passage has other grammatical troubles.
- I would expect this as good English: Only she remains who she was, and she encounters Ari as an aimless fashion designer, Kang In-chul, with a warm heart and bad temper.
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park sang joonSo I was wondering why it is "to be," not "being."Neither form works. The passage has other grammatical troubles. I would expect this as good English:
Only she remains who she was, and she encounters Ari as an aimless fashion designer, Kang In-chul, with a warm heart and bad temper.
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