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Help, please!

Goreti Ponte

Help, please!

Hi, dear fellow teachers!

Can you help me, please?

I asked students to rewrite a sentence starting by "despite": The sentence was:

It was cold weather but everyone had a good time.

As far as I know, there are two possible aways to rewrite the sentence correctly:

*Despite the cold weather, everyone had a good time.

*Despite being cold, everyone had a good time.

However, a student wrote the following:

* Despite the weather being cold, everyone had a good time.

Is it correct? Is it possible to use "being" after the noun phrase? Is it possible to use both in the same sentence or should we use either one or the other?

I would be very grateful if you could clarify my question.

Thanks in advance

Best regards

Goreti Ponte

28 Oct 2015

ascincoquinas

Hi Goreti!

I think this will answer your question: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/gramatica/gramatica-britanica/in-spite-of-and-despite

28 Oct 2015

Tapioca

Hey Goreti,

* Despite the weather being cold, everyone had a good time.*

That sounds perfectly acceptable to me and a good rewrite. I �d give her/him an extra point!

This one:
*Despite being cold, everyone had a good time.*

can have a slightly different meaning - that the people were cold, not necessarily the weather.

Useful link ACQ!

Tap

28 Oct 2015

vivienne71