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snowman
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 Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:21 am Post subject: there no taxis or there being no taxis |
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Please let me ask one question.
(a) There being no taxis, we had to walk home.
Is it possilbe to take off "being" from the sentence(a)? If it is, is the meaning still the same?
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beancurdturtle
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The sentence is proper. Good form for written (but not colloquial spoken) English.
It needs "being."
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