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Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence?



 
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Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence? #1 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:34 am   Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence?
 

Is there any sentence where `being' or `been' is the only verb in that sentence?
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Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence? #2 (permalink) Tue Apr 03, 2007 14:43 pm   Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence?
 

Hi LE

Both of those words are participles. I do not know of any complete sentence that would contain only 'being' or 'been' as the only verb.

You might hear something like this in informal conversation:
"Been to the movies lately?"
"Just being stubborn?"

However, in the sentences above, some words have simply been omitted. The complete sentences would/might be:
"Have you been to the movies lately?"
"Are you just being stubborn?"
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Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence? #3 (permalink) Wed Apr 04, 2007 0:55 am   Is there any sentence where 'being' or 'been' is the only verb in that sentence?
 

Sometimes foreign speakers of English think they hear sentences that have being or been as the only verb because we contract the helping verb and foreigners have to concentrate so much on the meaning of the sentence that they don't hear that other verb.

So when we say:

Quote:
I've already been there.
He's being difficult.

Some foreigners hear:

Quote:
I already been there.
He being difficult.

This is especially a problem for people who live in an English-speaking country for a few years before they start studying English.
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