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<p>The opponents of the bill were few but influential enough to prevent its being passed in the House. No error.</p>

<p>Ok, so could someone tell me why is "being passed" not wrong?</p>

<p>arg... it's really frustrating, remember they say that if something sounds wrong doesn't make it gramarically incorrect? well yeah, but when I do put no error for something that sounds wrong, the answer explaination just tells me to kill myself for being a dumb ass. When I pick out the wrong-sounding word in the sentence (like I did in this one), it turns out that the sentence is error free...</p>

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<p>Yeah, it's right. It's sort of like saying "prevent the fact that it was passed."</p>

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<p>so wordiness is only wrong when it's in sentence improvement and not in grammar usage?</p>

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<p>What are you talking about?</p>