Originally Posted by Egyption Arrow
#1 The study aims to investigate someone having the role of xxxx assigned to them.
#2 There is no context to tell us what this is relating to. The full sentence might help.
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- 20-Mar-2008, 12:55 #1
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being In the of the Merciful Allah,
Hi, what is the precise meaning of"being" in the following statement: "The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of being assigned to the role of...." A nother question, the adjective"assigned" refers to whom? Thanks ahead.
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- 20-Mar-2008, 19:59 #2
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- 21-Mar-2008, 21:22 #3
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Re: being "The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of being assigned to the role of either a prison guard or prisoner.", this is the full context under the title " Aim". After what you said, my question is " is it possible in English to qualify somebody/something without mentioning him/it directly or by a pronoun
- 23-Mar-2008, 15:35 #4
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Re: being Hello, any body there.
- 23-Mar-2008, 15:49 #5
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Re: being It's the passive in its gerund form, which is used after prepositions (in this case after of). Originally Posted by Egyption Arrow
Yes, it is possible to refer to somebody/something without mentioning them.
You could also say ... the effects of (someone/one/her/that person etc.) being assigned to the role of...
- 23-Mar-2008, 16:07 #6
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Re: being Thank alot.
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