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Why is “being ” used in this sentence “it being a rainy day” as a present participle?
The following sentence is somewhat confusing.
It being a rainy day, we had to abandon (or simply say cancel) the match.
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Being a rainy day, we had to abandon the match.
I think one of ...
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Where to get a set of common English phrase patterns?
I hope that this computational linguistics question is not an off-topic here.
For my little just-for-fun programming project I'm looking for common English phrase part-of-speech patterns to use to ...
