News of the World was gone,shut down after ____ in the biggest newspaper scandel ever to hit Britian.
问题描述：
News of the World was gone,shut down after ____ in the biggest newspaper scandel ever to hit Britian.
为何选being caught,不选 caught
答
being caught表示被动,“被卷入（丑闻）”.Caught是主动语态的,在这里不合适.Caught 可以看作过去分词表被动吗？在介词after后要用动名词doing，所以要写动名词的被动式 being caught.这是我的建议。如果视为连词，省略主语与be, 可以用caught 吗这位同学想得很全面啊。那我再解释一下。after作连词用时，是引导一个有主语的时间状语从句。如果你把主语和be动词都省了，还是从句吗？不又成了动词短语，还不是要填 being caught.