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IT JUST CAN'T BE 'C'
'C' is not chosen to be a predicate (謂語), but a present participle with perfect tense (現在分詞的完成形式) which is used to decorate "THE PRESENT HOTEL" as an adjective, meaning that some present work on the hotel has been completed recently. However, this is a compound scenario of two sentences with two parallel subjects, "THE ORIGINAL BUILDING" for one and "THE PRESENT HOTEL" for another. And "WAS ERECTED" is omitted from the 2nd sentence (this happens frequently to parallel subjects in English). Therefore, the whole sentence should look like as follows if it is completed with the missing part:
The originai building was erected in 1710, but this structure has been largely transformed and extended, the present hotel having been completed was erected in 1910.
Its Chinese translation is something like
這個樓房最初建於1710年,但它的大部分建築已被改造和擴展,已完成的現在這個旅館(的建築)則建於1910年。
By the way, "HAVING BEEN COMPLETED" is NOT the present perfect progressive tense (現在完成進行式). A present perfect progressive tense is as follows:
HAVE + BEEN + < RESENT PARTICIPLE> or HAS + BEEN + < RESENT PARTICIPLE>
such as "I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WORK THIS OUT FOR WEEKS". |
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