关于BEING

spyalien

新东方网课上说BEING是错误的标志，但是没有说得太清楚为什么。正常的句子中还是能见到BEING的，弄不清楚为什么就不太放心啊。。。

brfmzbjz

这是manhattan网站上的instructor的解释
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you should avoid "being" when expressing the IDENTITY or CHARACTERISTICS of some individual or thing. this is because "being" is usually unnecessary in such cases; there are simpler modifiers (such as appositives) that, while absolutely impossible to use in spoken language, are better in written language.
example:
being a cigar aficionado, john has strong opinions on when to use single-guillotine cigar cutters rather than double-guillotine cutters. --> bad.
a cigar aficionado, john has strong opinions on when to use single-guillotine cigar cutters rather than double-guillotine cutters. --> good. notice that we can simply omit the "being" here.

to sum up:
if "being" expresses IDENTITY or CHARACTERISTICS, then kill it.
otherwise, evaluate it on the same merits as you would any other verb.

spyalien

brfmzbjz 发表于 2014-6-12 06:27
这是manhattan网站上的instructor的解释
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非常感谢 看来Manhattan是很灵的！