Como usar Being. Being é uma palavra que pode ser difícil de dominar para falantes de inglês como segunda língua. Ele pode ser usado como um gerúndio ou em tempos contínuos no presente, ou no passado.

Em um tempo presente ou passado contínuo, o ser diz que está acontecendo agora, ou estava acontecendo antes, de maneira contínua.

Being as a present participle

Being is the present participle (-ing) form of the verb to be, used with the verb to be to form the continuous tenses:

• [Subject] + [to be] + being + [Complement].
• He is being oddly quiet this afternoon.

Being in the passive voice

Being can be used in the the passive continuous forms to show a process in progress (as above, an incomplete or repeated activity). For the passive voice, this is combined with the past participle:

• [Subject] + [to be] + being + [Past participle]
• My car was being washed.

This structure is used to emphasise the doing of the process, rather than the subject

Being as a gerund

The gerund being is a word form that uses the -ing form as a noun. It is used to describe the substance of being, which could be used as a subject or object, with a few different meanings:

• A life-form. He claimed to have seen a being from space.

This use is common when it is ambiguous or unimportant to specify exactly what the life-form is, so we can refer to uncategorised or new living things as ‘beings’.

Being as an adverb

Being can be used as a conjunction or as part of an adverbial phrase. Here, it roughly means because or since, and is often connected to a subordinate clause with that, as or as how:

• Wendy missed the train, being that she was late.
• Wendy missed the train, because she was late.
• Wendy missed the train, since she was late.
• Wendy missed the train, as she was late.

Being as part of a noun phrase

Being can also be used in combination with a complement to form a noun phrase from a state or condition, in order, for example, to refer to it in terms of cause and effect.

• His being short was the main reason they didn’t hire him.

Espero que essas explicações e exemplos dêem alguma idéia de como usamos a palavra being.

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