The whole point that him pretending to be rich is to get a date.
The whole point of this supposing to be a big wall is to hold off the
barbarians.
The first one seems correct, the second one doesn't sound quite right – but why wouldn't it be possible to use the equivalent forms here?
I was thinking about
The point of this supposedly being a big wall…
but that clearly does't mean the same thing.
I am aware that one could say "The point of this being a big wall" even if the wall is not yet big, yet that doesn't seem to work in all cases.
The whole point of this supposing to be a macro is that it shouldn't matter where it is located.
This is the sentence I actually want to construct. I don't want to say "the whole point of this being a macro…", because that would too strongly imply that it is or should be thought of as one. Instead, the idea that it is supposed to be a macro is first raised, and then dismissed.
Best Answer
The phrase is "to be supposed to". The phrase is not "supposing to", or "to be supposing to", or any variation thereof. When something is supposed to be a macro, it's not supposing to be a macro. It is not doing the supposing itself. It is supposed, by someone else, to be a macro.
The head verb of the phrase "to be supposed " is "to be". You are looking for a present-participle form of that, which is "being". Thus, you are looking for
And yes, that's clumsy, but it's grammatical, and hey, you get what you ask for. Me, I would rewrite from scratch. But at that point it becomes a question of style, not grammar.