Hello,
I’d like to make a participal construction like this:
My sister, even though she was sick, still worked overtime.
→ My sister, being sick, still worked overtime.
Can I change this way? I’d like to make a sentence using “being sick” or “being + adjective”.
Thank you in advance,
sweetpumpkin
How about this: Despite being sick my sister still worked overtime. It’s probably grammatically correct but it doesn’t sound very natural.
This wording is usually used in the opposite way.
Being XXX is used as the reason or justification for what follows.
My sister, being smart, got high marks in school.
She got high marks because she was smart.
My sister, being tall, was a good basketball player.
Being tall made her a better basketball player.
My sister, being sick, was unable to work.
Being sick was the reason why she could not work.
In Torsten’s sentence he used despite to give it the opposite meaning.
My sister, being smart, got high marks in school.
Despite being smart, my sister got poor marks.
My sister, being tall, was a good basketball player.
Despite being tall, my sister was a bad basketball player.
My sister, being nice, had lots of friends.
Despite being nice, my sister had no friends.