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"Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

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#1 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:42 am "Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

Being HIV positive is no death sentence Could anyone tell me which kind of sentence it is? _________________ Please let me know if I have made any mistakes in any of my sentences.

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#2 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:11 am "Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

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Being HIV positive is no death sentence

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If you are, God forbid, HIV positive, it means you have AIDS. So this sentence might have been spoken by a doctor to a patient who just got to know that the test result was positive and not negative.

Being HIV positive does not imply that you are going to die.
Being HIV positive does not mean death.

Just my little two cents...

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#3 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 14:31 pm "Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

learning_english wrote:

Could anyone tell me which kind of sentence it is?

What do you mean, LE? Do you want to know whether it's a negative sentence or not?

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#4 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 15:28 pm "Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

Yankee wrote:

learning_english wrote:

Could anyone tell me which kind of sentence it is?

What do you mean, LE? Do you want to know whether it's a negative sentence or not?

LE's question might have something to do with his previous post Smile

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http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic17030.html#is_there_any_sentence_where_being_or_been_is_the_only_verb_in_that_sentence

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#5 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 16:22 pm "Being HIV Positive" - Which kind of sentence it is?

Ah ha! If that's the case, then we still don't have a sentence in which 'being' is the only verb in the sentence. The verb in this sentence is is.

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