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Is the grammar okay?

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fansy
 
Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 08:48 am
... should this rating fail to go up when NBC covers the Beijing Olympics, it would mean that the investment of $900 million will have evaporated without even being able to have the capital retrieved.
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George
 
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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 09:36 am
@fansy,
Yes. What part of the sentence puzzles you?
fansy
 
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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 10:31 am
@George,
it's the position of "even" in without even being able to ...
I am not sure. If it sounds okay to you, I am quite happy.
George
 
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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 11:36 am
@fansy,
"without even being able to have the capital retrieved"

It is a focusing adverb.
Such adverbs ‘point to’ one part of clause.
They can go directly before the words they modify, in this case "being able..."
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 10 Sep, 2008 02:29 pm
@fansy,

No. The sentence it too loose- the "being able" verb refers to "the investment", which is not correct.
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