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Yoong Liat
 
Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 07:04 am
The children enjoyed being taken to the zoo.

What part of speech is 'being'?

Many thanks.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 07:47 am
passive tense.

A participle? Not sure.
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bluestblue
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 09:18 am
A gerund is my wild guess.
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 12:45 pm
Gerund is correct.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 12:49 pm
Shapeless wrote:
Gerund is correct.


Gerund in the passive. (Is this correct?)
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 12:52 pm
That is correct.
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 12:54 pm
Thanks, Shapeless.
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McTag
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 03:32 pm
Yoong Liat wrote:
Shapeless wrote:
Gerund is correct.


Gerund in the passive. (Is this correct?)


Gerund is not correct here, in my understanding. A gerund is a form of verb functioning as a noun, which is not the case here.


....or maybe "being taken" is a gerund?

Embarrassed eh, does it matter?
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Shapeless
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 04:02 pm
McTag wrote:
A gerund is a form of verb functioning as a noun, which is not the case here.


Sure it is... in this sentence, the verb is enjoy, and being serves as the object of the verb. Taken to the zoo is an adjectival phrase (built on the past participle of to take) modifying being.

Yoong Liat's sentence is similar to the example provided in Section 20 of this this grammar site.

As for whether it matters... I guess that's for Yoong Liat to decide. Very Happy
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Yoong Liat
 
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Reply Mon 27 Aug, 2007 08:55 pm
Shapeless wrote:
McTag wrote:
A gerund is a form of verb functioning as a noun, which is not the case here.


Sure it is... in this sentence, the verb is enjoy, and being serves as the object of the verb. Taken to the zoo is an adjectival phrase (built on the past participle of to take) modifying being.

Yoong Liat's sentence is similar to the example provided in Section 20 of this this grammar site.

As for whether it matters... I guess that's for Yoong Liat to decide. Very Happy


Thanks, Shapeless.

I think it is very important to know what the correct answer is. So it matters to me.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 28 Aug, 2007 01:07 am
Oh okay then.

But I would still prefer "being taken" as inseparable here: as in

The children enjoy...what? being taken....where? to the zoo.
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