Mariott Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Bivouac
The migrants (honeybees) travel only 30 meters or so before coalescing into a beardlike cluster, where they literally hang out together for several hours or a few days. Once bivouacked, the swarm will field serveral hundred house hunters to explore some 70 square kilometers of the surrounding landscape for potential homesites, locate a dozen or more possibilities...
In this text, I don't quite understand the structure of the unerlined part-Once bivouacked. Can this be paraphrased into like Once they are bivouacked(once being bivouacked)? Does this mean once they decide to stay there for a while?
Thanks in advance!
In this text, I don't quite understand the structure of the unerlined part-Once bivouacked. Can this be paraphrased into like Once they are bivouacked(once being bivouacked)? Does this mean once they decide to stay there for a while?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi, Can this be paraphrased into like Once they are bivouacked(once being bivouacked) ? Yes Does this mean once they decide to stay there for a while ? Yes, that's the idea.
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Hi,
Can this be paraphrased into like Once they are bivouacked(once being bivouacked)? Yes
Does this mean once they decide to stay there for a while? Yes, that's the idea.
A simpler example.
Can this be paraphrased into like Once they are bivouacked(once being bivouacked)? Yes
Does this mean once they decide to stay there for a while? Yes, that's the idea.
A simpler example.
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