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English translation: We were being very quiet, but she yelled at us anyway.

22:51 Sep 26, 2001
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
Marketing
English term or phrase: being
how we can use to being in sentences?
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Selected answer:We were being very quiet, but she yelled at us anyway.
Explanation:
Being can be either a noun or a gerund.

It's hard being so short.

What kind of being would have pink spots on its legs?

Hope this helps.
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athena22
United States
Local time: 21:44
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5 +3We were being very quiet, but she yelled at us anyway.
athena22
5I am a human being.
Sven Petersson
5Being a human being these days, things being as they are, is a challenge to my very being!
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)


  

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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
We were being very quiet, but she yelled at us anyway.


Explanation:
Being can be either a noun or a gerund.

It's hard being so short.

What kind of being would have pink spots on its legs?

Hope this helps.

athena22
United States
Local time: 21:44
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 32
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agree  Robert Donahue (X)
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
I am a human being.


Explanation:
Implicit in answer.


    My geriatric brain.
Sven Petersson
Sweden
Local time: 06:44
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 160
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4 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Being a human being these days, things being as they are, is a challenge to my very being!


Explanation:
Just to spice up the pot a bit!


    Scholasticism and Existentialism (with apologies to Thomas Aquinas and Jean Paul Sartre)
DR. RICHARD BAVRY (X)
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