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Dileepa Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

What is the meaning of "given"?

I found the following sentence on Youtube. Though I could understand what they say, I have no idea about the associated grammar points. I mean, though it seems as though it is a perfect participle clause, I'm not precisely sure about it. Therefore, please someone let me know which type of constructions this is. In addition, please give me a web link to study this further.


Given the millions of billions of earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist.


Reference:-

Please note that time of the video is included in following url.

https://youtu.be/EVBCLAaflaw?t=237



  

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Given the millions of billions of earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist. Given here is an idiomatic term that means the speaker will not dispute or disagree with what is then said. eg Given that Tom loves Mary, he should marry her.

— Clive

  • Given the millions of billions of earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist.
  • Given here is an idiomatic term that means the speaker will not dispute or disagree with what is then said.
  • eg Given that Tom loves Mary, he should marry her.
  • eg Given that global wrming is a reality, we are all doomed.
  • A similar term is ' granted that '.
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Given the millions of billions of earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist.

Given here is an idiomatic term that means the speaker will not dispute or disagree with what is then said.

eg Given that Tom loves Mary, he should marry her.

eg Given that global wrming is a reality, we are all doomed.

A similar t

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dileepaa perfect participle clause

Close, but no cigar. Emotion: smile

It's a past participle claus

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Given the millions of billions of earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the universe without a doubt does exist.


No, it's not a participial clause, though this "given" has arisen by conversion from the past participle verb of the same shape.

It's actually a preposition here, interpreted as "taking into account", "in view of", or just "considering" (also a prep he

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