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How do you say this in English (US)? Being asked/ to be asked for advice by the President was a great honor.
Hello! Which one is preferable here? Are they both possible? If yes, is there any difference? Thank you :)
How do you say this in English (US)? Being asked/ to be asked for advice by the President was a great honor.
Hello! Which one is preferable here? Are they both possible? If yes, is there any difference? Thank you :)
Hello! Which one is preferable here? Are they both possible? If yes, is there any difference? Thank you :)
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To be asked is more correct
the people being asked = the people who are asked
"Being asked" is present continuous/progressive tense and it is a passive voice construction.
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Being washed makes him feel nervous.
I thought it was like in this sentence, not present continuous. But passive voice with gerund. isn't it?
Being washed makes him feel nervous.
I thought it was like in this sentence, not present continuous. But passive voice with gerund. isn't it?
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The structure being + adjective is used to talk about actions and behavior.
Being can be followed by a past participle. This structure is used in the passive forms of present and past continuous tenses.
It can be used as a gerund, or in present or past continuous tenses.
In a present or past continuous tense, being says that it is happening now, or was happening before, in a continual manner.:
He is being nice.
Being can also be used as a gerund, a word that acts like a noun and looks like a verb.:
Do you like being a student? ("like" is the verb, "being" is a noun")
Also "being" is the present participle of the verb "be"
And I found link there people talking more about "being"
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/412...
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