Week 1 / Grammar Review 1

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TIME Newsweek

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1) 1
[ 1] Having recently graduated from high school, she has never worked in an
office before. (BLC2000 [01:01638])
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(Business Letter Corpus = BLC)
http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/)
Business Letter Corpus Online KWIC Concordancer
URL 2001 8 1

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[ 1]
[ 2] Arrested five times by Israeli officials, he has spent 42 months in prison and
an additional five years under house arrest. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1991. p. 8)
[ 2] 5 42
5

(-ing )
Being
Having been [ 2]

[ 2]

Having

been arrested five times by Israeli officials. . .

[ 1] she [ 2] he

2) 2
[ 1] For a man in the eye of a press hurricane, he seemed serene, stealing time to
smoke a cigar and read a book.

(Newsweek, Feb. 10, 1992. p. 25)

[ 1]

[ 2] On May 30, the agency barred his livestock from the land, charging that they
had damaged creek banks by loosening soil, shrouding the Lahontan's eggs in silt.
(Newsweek, Sept. 30, 1991. p. 41)

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[ 1]
stealing he
He (even) steals time to smoke a cigar and
read a book.

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[ 2] charging that that

The agency charged that they (= his livestock ) had
damaged creek banks [...]
-ing
[...] by loosening soil, (and thereby) shrouding the Lahontan's
eggs in silt.
2)
3) 3
[ 1] Wink, trying to distract the gunman, taunted him from the building next
door. The gunman, wounded four times by police bullets, retreated to a restroom
and killed himself with a shot to the head.
[ 1]

(Newsweek, Oct. 28, 1991. p. 35)

--------------------2) 2
2

[ 1] Seeing a policeman, the man ran away.

(see

[ 2] She asked me a question, smiling softly. ask smile

2 The man saw a
policemen, and run away. 2
[ 2] A B
B A End
Focus [
2] smiling softly

Smiling softly, she asked me a question.

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[ 2] But the pressembarrassed at following the lead of a supermarket tabloid,

especially when Flower's credibility has been underminedturned on itself last
week in morning-after remorse. (Newsweek, Feb. 10, 1992. p. 25)
[ 2]

[ 1] Wink, who tried to distract the gunman, taunted [...]

The gunman, who was wounded four times by police bullets, retreated to [...]
[ 2] But the press, which was embarrassed at following the lead of a supermarket
tabloid, turned on itself [...]

[
1] try to
trying to distract

[
1] (i)
i = Wink
Wink who

Winki, (i) trying to distract the gunman, taunted [...]

4) 4
[ 1]

The son of schoolteachers, Sayles grew up in a working-class neighborhood

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in Schenectady, New York.

(TIME, Aug. 5, 1991. p. 46)

[ 1]

Being Having been

Being (Having been)
Being unable
to campaign on different platforms [...] Being Unable to
campaign on different platforms [...]
Being
Having been
5) 5
[ 1] The wine having run out, we left the party.
[ 1]
[ 2] Weather permitting, I'll go fishing this weekend.
[ 2]
[ 3] There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m.
[ 3] 5

(absolute construction)
[ 2] [ 3]
[ 3] Since there was
no further business to attend to, [...]

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