Transtive verb vs. Intranstive verb

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Stenka25  #487742  Wed, 12 Mar 08 03:28 AM
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I met a paragraph concerning Latin Dances. It's like the below.

The shoulder line , however, is still straight. Therefore, the sides of the *torso are unequal; The left side is stretched long, while the right side is shorter. Line shows the clockwise rotation of the hips resulting from the straight knee and hip being pushed backwards while the bent knee and hip push forward.

➳First Question.

In the last sentence, the verb, 'push' is used both 'transtively (being pushed)' and 'intranstively (push).' Isn't it a bit inconsistent, and shouldn't we change one of two?

I mean, if we use 'being pushed,' we should change underlined 'pushed' to 'is pushed.' or if we don't want to change underlined 'pushed,' we should change 'being pushed' to 'pushing.' Please help me.

➳Second Question.

I know 'result' is used only intranstively, but isn't there any chance of using 'result' as transtive verb, so the use of 'resulted' can be possible in the above sentence. (Am I too picky? Sorry if I am, but in the sense of non-native and Korean speaker intranstive verb 'result' is too complicating!)

 

  
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Yankee  #487873  Wed, 12 Mar 08 09:55 AM
Hi Stenka

The use of 'push' in both the passive and the active suggests to me that it is the action of one knee and hip moving forward which pushes the other knee and hip backward.

If you used 'resulted' in the text, it would be a reference to the past (i.e. what the result was).  The use of 'resulting' indicates that this is what the result always is.
  
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