Question

请高手回答一个语法问题：

When I was a child,I lived with my mother,my father having been away to work in the town.
1.问此句，为什么用having been?
2. my father having been away to work in the town.该如何翻译？是什么时态？请说出这句的主谓宾？谢谢！

Answer 1

1用havingbeen 表示过去常常发生

2 主语是 my father 谓语是having been away 宾语work 翻译为我父亲经常外出到乡下工作。过去完成时

Answer 2

状语从句吧。。。

主句就是。。。i lived with my mother...

表时间的从句：when I was a child
表原因的从句：my father having been away to work in the town

当我是个小孩的时候，因为爸爸在城里工作的关系，我跟妈妈住在一起