<p>In all of the writing sections I've taken, it seems that the word "being" never appears in a correct answer. anyone to confirm this?</p>
<p>Daniel</p>
<p>ps. if possible just PM me</p>
<p>It is irregular.</p>
<p>Yes, being is used incorrectly almost all the time. However, this doesn't mean you should automatically select it as an error. Once in a while in a sentence with being, the error is something else.</p>
<p>Not always:</p>
<p>Being to tired to work, Ellen stayed at home.</p>
<p>The answer choices with the word 'being' do have a tendency to be incorrect, but this isn't always true, like the other posters said. If it is incorrect, it is usually quite obvious to sense the error. </p>
<p>When, after bleak and lonely years in an English public school, he returned to India, there was suddenly perceived by himself a strong desire to write about the people and land he loved.</p>
<p>A. there was suddenly perceived by himself
B. he suddenly was perceived
C. suddenly the feeling that came to him being
D. he suddenly felt
E. suddenly he had the feeling of</p>
<p>In this case, the answer choice with the word 'being' is incorrect. Just use your own judgment, and I'm sure you will be able to decide if the answer choice with 'being' is right or wrong. Good luck!</p>
<p>J Shi. I have to disagree with your post.
I was taught that the word Being should never be at the beginning of the sentence. While you sentence sounds perfectly fine, and I would probably use this phrasing while writing an essay, it is still irregular use. Instead of using phrases such as: "being" "Being that" Being such that", you should use the word because.
The correction to you sentence would be "Because she was to tired to work, Ellen Stayed at home. I hope I helped and didn't sound too much like a JackA(s)s</p>
<p>Well, if the sentence J. Shi wrote appeared on a test, then clearly the mistake would not be the word "being," it would be the word "to," so in that sense his example was valid. Clearly "to" is a bigger problem than "being" in that sentence. I would never pick a word and say that it's always going to be used incorrectly; that's not going to help you do well on the test. What will help you is analyzing each sentence carefully, and maybe trying to pick out the error before you look at answer choices. You're not going to score high just relying on testing tricks, it's more important to understand the grammar behind it.</p>
<p>ooh... j shi was schooled. maybe now he'll be less cocky.</p>
<p>"Being to tired to work, Ellen stayed at home."</p>
<p>Correction, stupid: Too tired to work, Ellen stayed at home.</p>
<p>and fermat, "being" isn't always wrong. "being that" usually is.</p>