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Does this sentence sound correct? If not, would you correct it?
Having been playing a lot of video games for many years, he is now a specialist on video games.
"Having translated patents for many years, he is now a specialist in that area."
still sounds more natural to me. *shrug*
I wanted to know the pattern "having been (verb)+ing" is used as a participle clause in this way.
I think it is, but maybe not very often. As always, opinions may differ between native speakers. So if anyone else wants to put their two pennyworth in they should go ahead.
Unfortunately you can't rely on Google numbers nearly as much as you could a few years ago. That 880,000 hits, for example, turns out to be just 217. The whys and wherefores are a bit complicated so I won't go into them unless you are interested.Thanks for the search, Lothor. 880,000 hits! Wow!
Unfortunately you can't rely on Google numbers nearly as much as you could a few years ago. That 880,000 hits, for example, turns out to be just 217. The whys and wherefores are a bit complicated so I won't go into them unless you are interested.
"having been working" - Google Search
Cynically speaking, the more results they estimate they have the more impressive it sounds to people.Thanks. It makes you wonder why they give such a high number of results!