Dear friends,
I would greatly appreciate if you could inform me about the existence of the following structure in English:
The being+adjective of something
such as:
The validity of evidence = The being valid of evidence
Regards,
The being+adjective of something
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Re: The being+adjective of something
There is no such construction, I'm afraid.
You are perhaps thinking of an absolute construction, such as
There being no evidence, the police were unable to get a conviction.
You are perhaps thinking of an absolute construction, such as
There being no evidence, the police were unable to get a conviction.