Jaleel.nt, in the first instance, we deal with a phenomenon that is conventionally known as a passive gerund ; the whole clause with being... can be substituted with a noun phrase, eg, ...this award . Therefore, we refer to being... as a nominal

1)Obama says he is surprised and humbled at being awarded the Nobel prize. 2) Being his wife dead, His wife being dead, he married another lady. The second one is wrong. I've corrected it above. The meanings are as follows: Obama says he

Experts, When someone says that "I'm building my house.", does it mean "one is having a house built for him now" or does it mean "one is building his house by himself" ? And if want to say that you're having

Hi, You gave us only one choice as to what 'A is not as strong as B'. This is typically short hand for 'A is not as strong as B is strong'. Out of context though, this is only a guess. It might be short for 'A is not as

When we say 'his being' we are using 'his' as a possessive pronoun. This is tantamount to saying Bob's doing... (An apostrophe here indicates possessive). And whenever one uses such a construction, although one should try to

Part I: Yes. Part II: I do use "weaker". Also - using "is not as strong as" lightens the tone. If you don't want to offend (or you're showing agreement toward) A, use "is not as strong as". If you want

Vincent Teo, 'Last fortnight' is by no means incorrect, though infrequent and may be rephrased to comply with standard usage. Concerning the second part of your message, its grammatical realisation depends on the meaning conveyed. If the

You gave us only one choice as to what 'A is not as strong as B'. This is typically short hand for 'A is not as strong as B is strong'. Out of context though, this is only a guess. It might be short for 'A is not as strong as B

In this sentence, " Perhaps you are aware that the construction company has agreed to retain many of the trees that are now growing on the property .", I'm wonderring why the present perfect tense was used. Please help. Thanks so much!

Hi there Is the preposition 'to' always required in such as construction: 'I replied (to) his email'; 'I'll reply (to) you when I have the time' Can we omit it? Cheers