We have partnered with TradePub to bring you free industry magazines and resources - no coupons or credit cards required!

Visit: englishforums.tradepub.com


Share this topic:
This question is Not Answered
Latest post Wed, Jun 24 2009 1:42 PM by keepsmiling. 2 replies.
Suggest an answer | | |
Anonymous  +  355555 Wed, 25 Apr 07 04:23 PM
How is this type of phrases (having + past participle) called in English? In which cases one should use them?
Cool Breeze  +  355969 Thu, 26 Apr 07 10:08 AM
It's called the perfect participle by many grammarians. However, there is variation in terminology. It is perhaps most frequently used in clause equivalents:

Having written the letter, he went to bed. (= After he had written the letter, he went to bed.)
All the answers having been written, we decided to take a walk. (= After all the answers had been written, we decided...


This structure often sounds quite formal.
CB
Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006
Senior Member 3,970
"I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991
keepsmiling  +  793404 Wed, 24 Jun 09 01:42 PM

Thank you very much for letting us gaining such valuable information as i have never seen second type of sentence that you have written.

Once again Thank you very much.

But i really don't know regarding using stated second type of sentence  or has it ever used in communication? Cool Breeze

Joined on Fri, Dec 5 2008
Delhi
Junior Member 59
© MediaCet Ltd. 2009, v5.0.3607.32596. All content posted by our users is a contribution to the public domain, this does not include imported usenet posts.*
For web related enquires please contact us on webmaster@mediacet.com, status updates are available at status.mediacet.com.
*Usenet post removal: Use 'X-No-Archive'. You may not have understood that your posts would end up in the public domain. Please send proof of the poster's email, we will remove immediately.