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Re: Methane, which has long been counted among

by RonPurewal Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:23 am

shobujgmat Wrote:Ron, can you please give some example of

Right use of BEING

and wrong use of being

Thanks in advance


this should be posted in the general verbal folder, not here, since it's not directly pertinent to this question. i'll post a separate thread over there.

that post is found at
being-from-user-shobujgmat-t6700.html
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Re: Methane, which has long been counted among

by dudettaman Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:33 am

Ron,

how the parallelism BOTH----AND------ is followed in A??
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Re: Methane, which has long been counted among

by kthom83 Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:43 pm

I heard that we need to look at choices with "being" only if all the other choices are grammatically wrong... Is it true?
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Re: Methane, which has long been counted among

by RonPurewal Sat Sep 03, 2011 8:39 pm

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.)