正確使用 "being"

[micht]

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不是所有being都錯!!

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Some explanation about "being"

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Disclaimer: Please pay close attention to my usage of most, often, many, etc. If I say that something is often true, this doesn't mean that's it's always true. The GMAT is a sneaky, elusive test, and it can be very clever at finding exceptions to whatever rules we come up with.

People who study for GMAT for a while quickly learn that being is usually wrong.

So I'm guessing you already know that being in an answer choice is wrong more often than it is right.

This is a good strategy to get you started, but to get over 700 on the GMAT, you really need to know some of the finer points of GMAT Sentence Correction that relate to the use of the word being.

There are at least two different situations in which being is often the right answer.

Here is the first example of when being is correct:

When the grammar requires it.

Yes, I'm trying to simplify things here, but the idea is this--many ideas can be expressed in more than one way. For example, I can say:

I'm afraid of being late.I'm afraid that I'll be late.

Each has its own emphasis, but the point is that these two structures exist.
Whether we can express ideas in one or more structures is really related to the word used; in other words, it is idiomatic.

But some idioms allow only one structure. For example:

In addition to being one of the first restaurants to combine Mediterranean and American tastes, Chez Panisse in Berkeley is also one of the Bay Area's most established restaurants.

The idiomatic structure in addition to does not have a counterpart that uses a subject and a verb, so our only option here is to use being, which is grammatically a noun, but is derived from a verb.

The second example of when being is correct is shown in this example:

There are many reasons to get an MBA, with increased career prospects being the most important for many MBA applicants.

Technically this part here:

with increased career prospects being the most important for many MBA applicants

is an absolute phrase, but I think it's also helpful just to memorize the pattern:

[highlight=yellow]with + NOUN + being + NOUN COMPLEMENT[/highlight]

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[Tony]

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查一下字典, 有說到當V時做如下解釋:
"used in a phrase to explain something about the rest of the sentence"

example: I was scared and feeling pretty anxious, this being my first time in a new country.

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[micht]

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