kthom83 Wrote:I heard that we need to look at choices with "being" only if all the other choices are grammatically wrong... Is it true?
well, that sort of statement is tautological -- i mean, if "all of the other choices are grammatically wrong", then
whatever is in the remaining choice must be correct.
in general, there are two ways in which to handle "being":
1/ you can just guess that choices containing "being" are incorrect. this method is not foolproof, of course -- there are correct answers containing "being" -- but it's a good guessing method in terms of probability.
2/ you can eliminate
modifiers that start with "being".
as far as i've seen, this is going to be reliable; if you have a modifier that starts with "being", then the "being" is usually not necessary. (the reason why this is such a common trap is that the resulting modifiers -- the ones produced by eliminating the word "being" -- are usually awkward or impossible in
spoken language.)