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Sabyakgp Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Being or Is

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01font00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, the Sundarbans 01u01font00being02font02u00 one of them.02font02br
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01font00I would like to know whether using "is" instead of "being" here would be grmmatically legitimate. I didn't understand why the writer has used "being" instead of "is".02font02br
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01font00Could some one please explain.02font02br
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0Hi Sabya,02br 02br 00No, you can't put "is" in place of "being" without rewriting. 02br 02br 01font 00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, the Sundarbans 02font 01u 01font 00being02font 02u 01font 00 one of them. 02font 00- okay02br 02br 01font 00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, 01font 02font 02font 00and the Sundarbans is one of those systems.

— BarbaraPA

  • 0Hi Sabya,02br 02br 00No, you can't put "is" in place of "being" without rewriting.
  • 02br 02br 01font 00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, the Sundarbans 02font 01u 01font 00being02font 02u 01font 00 one of them.
  • 02font 00- okay02br 02br 01font 00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, 01font 02font 02font 00and the Sundarbans is one of those systems.
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0Hi Sabya,02br
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00No, you can't put "is" in place of "being" without rewriting. 02br
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01font00THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, the Sundarbans 02font01u01font0
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0Thanks a lot Grammar Geek.02br
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00As my english is not very strong I couldn't understand your explanation very clearly. Could you please elaborate on this.02br
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00Thanks,02br
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0Let's try with a simpler sentence.02br
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01font00Mary makes delicious cookies, chocolate chip being my favorite.02font02br
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00If you changed 01i00being02i00 to 01i00is02i00 you get this: *Mary makes delicious cookies, chocolate chip is my favorite.02br
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0Congratulations on your Guru status, Barbara!05002br
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00 You may have to write MM to be upgraded (at 5,000 posts; doesn't quite work automatically, perhaps a prob in the programs). 010id1
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0Thanks Barbara,02br
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00I seached for "comma splice" on the Internet after I saw your reply and consulted a book on punctuation (By Oxford University Press). What I understood is "comma splice" is a common error that most of the people often make.02br
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00The book said "It's not normally correct to join the clauses of a compund sentence without a co
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0Of your two suggestions about the road, your second one is much more natural. I'm not sure that I can explain why - perhaps "the road being still under construction beyond that" works. 02br
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00A comma splice is when you join just the two - if you have a list (Kim is..., Pat is... , and Tim is...) then you can join them with comma until you get to the last one, when you
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0 Thanks a lot Barbara. 0-
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