OG 42,253

tianwan · 发表于 2004-5-14 11:33:00

stoneren的问题：

42. The current administration, being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.
(A)being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing

253. Analysts blamed May's sluggish retail sales on unexciting merchandise as well as the weather, colder and wetter than was usual in some regions. which slowed sales of barbecue grills and lawn furniture.
(D)being colder and wetter than usually in some regions, slowing
(E)having been colder and wetter than was usual in some regions and slowed
对于42的A，OG并没有说being错，235的D，OG也只是强调表达不精确，却没有提到being是否可以省略。
所以，我想问，加入being是否错？谢谢

mariezhu · 发表于 2004-5-14 11:53:00

我觉得去掉being更简洁而且所要表达的意思没有丝毫减少,所以从简洁的角度考虑,这儿being有些redundant, 至于是否是错误,这就要看标准是什么了,拿ets的看来,反正不能是正确选项,如果拿日常对话和写作来看,也许并不是什么错误,但是...唉,写到这里,我也还是觉得有些没有必要保留

bon · 发表于 2004-5-14 12:59:00

这两题都有表示状态的倾向，现在分词结构是否无法表示呢？回去查查语法书

tianwan · 发表于 2004-5-14 14:40:00

确定的：after，before后不能直接加过去分词，必须加being。

不确定的：除此之外，用being好像都错。

请NN补充可以加being的场合。

rt316 · 发表于 2004-5-15 00:08:00

我认为除了介词后表达被动必须用being done以外，其他being的使用都是强调同时性的。正好看到OG14，举个例子：Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate
jawbone unearthed in B provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.如果把该句改为：Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone being unearthed in B will provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.前一句强调fragments已经被挖出来了；而后一句强调fragments正在被挖出来。我认为，being done的结构融合了现在分词（表达进行和主动）和过去分词（表达完成和被动）的作用即：表达被动和动作进行。
个人看法，不知是否合理，请大家指正。

mariezhu · 发表于 2004-5-15 10:46:00

Some explanation about "being"

ENJOY !

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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:

with + NOUN + being + NOUN COMPLEMENT

JerryGuan · 发表于 2004-5-15 12:04:00

补充：Besides being; without being

OG30. What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc has been the use of the new technology to revitalize, in better sound than was ever before possible, some of the classic recorded performances of the pre-LP era.

(A) What was as remarkable as the development of the compact disc

(B) The thing that was as remarkable as developing the compact disc

(C) No less remarkable than the development of the compact disc

(D) Developing the compact disc has been none the less remarkable than

(E) Development of the compact disc has been no less remarkable as

Besides being wordy, the clauses beginning What was in A and The thing that was in B cause inconsistencies in verb tense: the use of the new technology cannot logically be described by both the present perfect has been and the past was.

OG15. In his research paper, Dr. Frosh, medical director of the Payne Whitney Clinic, distinguishes between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis

victorliao · 发表于 2004-10-12 16:22:00

我对being done的理解与stoneren兄弟 ,不知过了这么久,stoneren兄弟有没有新的理解?对这个BEING我老是觉的怕怕的,

我认为除了介词后表达被动必须用being done以外，其他being的使用都是强调同时性的。正好看到OG14，举个例子：Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate
jawbone unearthed in B provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.如果把该句改为：Paleontologists believe that fragments of a primate jawbone being unearthed in B will provide evidence of a crucial step along the evolutionary path that led to human beings.前一句强调fragments已经被挖出来了；而后一句强调fragments正在被挖出来。我认为，being done的结构融合了现在分词（表达进行和主动）和过去分词（表达完成和被动）的作用即：表达被动和动作进行。

谢谢!

eSpirit · 发表于 2004-10-12 19:49:00

我觉得这里如果加入了being，那在这儿就只能表示被动语态了，我觉得很少有说sb. is/are worried ，至少到目前还没看到过。而且如要表示被动也要补出介词by,说明是被什么worried的。所以加入being不妥！

个人意见。

theresa · 发表于 2004-10-12 20:40:00

og42题ets明明说A, D, and E begin with unnecessarily wordy phrases.

证明being 是多余的呀！

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