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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Progressive "being".

Can this progressive use be correct?

She's being nice, or else!
  

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Not common, but I can imagine a situation in which this sentence is appropriate. MrM: Our daughter doesn't want to go to the Queen's Ball, you know. MrsM: I don't care-- she's going!

— Mister Micawber

  • Not common, but I can imagine a situation in which this sentence is appropriate.
  • MrM: Our daughter doesn't want to go to the Queen's Ball, you know.
  • MrsM: I don't care-- she's going!
  • MrM: I don't think she'll be very pleasant if she's forced to go...
  • MrsM: Oh, yes-- she's going, all right!
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Not common, but I can imagine a situation in which this sentence is appropriate.

MrM: Our daughter doesn't want to go to the Queen's Ball, you know.
MrsM: I don't care-- she's going!
MrM: I don't think she'll be very pleasant if she's forced to go...
MrsM: Oh, yes-- she's going, all right! And she's being nice, or else!
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I agree with Mr M's suggestion.
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Can't "being" be used with the implication that it is temporal?

"I'm being so nice to him because his father has died" (i am usually not, i don't like him)

Can it be said so?
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Yes, it can show that meaning.

Temporary not temporal (which means something else entirely Emotion: smile)
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