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A question about past tense and past perfect tense

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takashiro
1. __________ by the beauty of nature, the girl from London dicided to spend another 2 days on the farm.
A. Attracted
B. Having been atracted

2. __________ of danger in the street at night, she had to go home with a friend following her.
A. Warned
B. Having been warned


I'm really confused. I thought both of the 2 tenses is ok but just expressing different ideas. "Having been done" emphasizes the order of the 2 actions while "Done" doesn't. I thought I can express either of the 2 ideas, but it seems that I can't.

Can any friends whose mother tongue is English help me?
ocalhoun
For #1, either would be just about the same, though the B option is more wordy, and sounds a little bit stilted.

For #2, I would only use A if it was reworded as _____of the danger...

Come to think of it, both options for #2 sound a bit strange. "______ that the street was dangerous at night" might be a better way to word it.
mimic
ocalhoun wrote:
For #1, either would be just about the same, though the B option is more wordy, and sounds a little bit stilted.

For #2, I would only use A if it was reworded as _____of the danger...

Come to think of it, both options for #2 sound a bit strange. "______ that the street was dangerous at night" might be a better way to word it.
mimic
ocalhoun wrote:
For #1, either would be just about the same, though the B option is more wordy, and sounds a little bit stilted.

For #2, I would only use A if it was reworded as _____of the danger...

Come to think of it, both options for #2 sound a bit strange. "______ that the street was dangerous at night" might be a better way to word it.


I agree with him : the first sentence doesn't really matter which way because it still has the same meaning however the second sentence does because it sounds incomplete if you use warned where as "Having been warned" slightly changes the meaning and makes it sound complete.

That's just my opinion.
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