Grammatical structure problem

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Ben9108  #131844  Mon, 29 Aug 05 04:52 PM

{For air leakage test, according to EN314 of which all the standard should have our constructed air ducts being followed, only high pressure class air duct needed to be leakage tested. Our ventilation equipment fall only on low and medium class and therefore, the related ductworks are not required to be leakage tested.}

 

I would like to know the grammer of the above highlighted words.

1. what is the meaning "of which" & "should have"?

2. "constructed" Is it used in past participle? 

3. "being followed"  what is the grammatical structure?

4."needed to be leakage tested" what is the grammatical structure?

Please help me to solve the above problem?

  
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paco2004  #131955  Mon, 29 Aug 05 10:55 PM

Hello Ben

There are many mistakes in the writing. I myself is not good at writing, but if I try to correct it, then it will be like:

For air leakage test, according to EN314 of which all the standard our constructed air ducts should follow, only high-pressure class air ducts need to be leakage test. Our ventilation equipment falls within only low and medium classes and therefore, the related ductworks are not required to be leakage tested.

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For air leakage test, according to [1] EN314 of which all the standard should have our constructed air ducts being followed, only high pressure class air duct needed to be leakage tested. Our ventilation equipment fall only on low and medium class and therefore, the related ductworks are not required to be leakage tested.
1. What is the meaning "of which" & "should have"?
3. "being followed"  what is the grammatical structure?
If we pick up the relative clause [1] and change it into a normal clause, it will be like: " All the standard of EN314 should have our constructed air ducts being followed", but it makes no sense. This part is like gibberish and it is no use parsing that kind of stuff.
2. "Constructed", is it used in past participle?
It is a past-participle derived adjective.
4. "Needed to be leakage tested" what is the grammatical structure?
It should be "need to be leakage tested".

I myself am an English learner and I am afraid I might have made any mistake. But you can be sure some native speaker comes to correct me in that case.

paco

  
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davkett  #131957  Mon, 29 Aug 05 11:09 PM

A possible revision of your sentence:

According to EN314, (the standard which all of our constructed air ducts should follow), only the high-pressure class of air ducts needs to be tested for air leakage.  Our ventilation equipment is classified as low-pressure and medium-pressure, so these ductworks are not required to be leakage tested.

 

  
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Ben9108  #132221  Tue, 30 Aug 05 04:00 PM

Thank You Paco , but i have some question stated as below:

How to use "being" in grammatical structure? Would you mind give me some example?

(only high-pressure class air ducts need to be leakage test.) Why the sentence use in active voice? Is it correct when change  in passive voice? {only high-pressure class air ducts are needed to be leakage test.}

 

  
davkett  #132226  Tue, 30 Aug 05 04:12 PM

Hi Ben,

Please consider my revised version of your statement, because the original form of your statement is both ungrammatical and very awkwardly worded.

 

 

  
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