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I don't care for this usage of "being," and I advise my students not to use it. It's hard to use without committing some kind of error. In this particular case, you have an error that we call a dangling modifier.j After the comma, the subject must be the subject of "being," which is birds. Take this as an example.

*Hissing and coiling, the child was afraid of the snake. The child is

I don't like this usage of "being." It opens the door for a lot of grammar errors. That being said, the sentence has another important mistake. After an introductory phrase, which is a participial phrase, the word after the comma should be the subject of the introductory phrase.

*Hissing and coiling, the child was afraid of the snake. The child isn't hissing and coiling; the snake is.

Christine Christie

Is this type of construction correct:

"BEING SO CUTE, who would have the courage to scare them?"

(Note: In case it's relevant, I'm speaking of birds.)

No, the construction is not correct. For that idea you need something more like the following.

Who would have the courage to scare anything so cute?

Christine Christie

Is this type of construction correct:

"BEING SO CUTE, who would have the courage to scare them?"

(Note: In case it's relevant, I'm speaking of birds.)

An introductory phrase applies to the subject of the sentence, in this case "who". But it is "them" who are cute and not "who". You need to turn the introductory