In the previous question I was told that these sentences are clumsy and their meanings are confusing:
-
Being taken to the hospital, he survived.
-
Being beaten by the snow, he died.
Can I convert these sentence into meaningfull sentences as follows:
- Being taken to the hospital, he died.
(To mean: while he was being taken to the hospital, he died)
- Being beaten by mother to her son, the father arrived.
(To mean: While the son was being beaten by his mother, the father arrived)
and,
Do I have to use "while" in front of "being+past participle in above sentences to imply those intended meanings?
Best Answer
I think you are mistaken in your belief that starting a sentence with
in isolation has an implication of
In all cases I can think of we would explicitly include the extra information
When we start the sentence with Being we are using the adjectival form
Your example of
is actually an example of the adjectival form of being. It is important to realise that beaten also may be a verb or an adjective. In this example we are using beaten as an adjective meaning defeated.
is the interpretation of
You are thinking of this as if it were like your previous "mother" example, as if the snow were beating, that is hitting, a person.
which is not the correct interpretation.