Oct 1, 2018 · Which sentence is correct, and why? 1) It's awesome being by the water. 2) It's awesome to be by the water.

Say you have a sentence: The food is being processed in a factory. The food is processed in a factory. Both of them sounds right to me. Which one is grammatically correct? When would you use...

Dec 26, 2017 · Is being is present continuous. This can be used for an action that is still in process, or it can be used for an action that will be performed in the immediate future.

Personally, I think this use of call is at the very least "slangy" - in any remotely "formal" context I'd expect identify, label, classify, designate, or similar. So far as I can see, the cited example is syntactically equivalent to The witness identified the accused as [being] the man who hit her. In both cases the word being is "optional" - though for some reason it seems more suitable to ...

Being jealous is what's called a free adjunct. It would be very difficult to explain exactly what linguists understand about it to you, since it requires a lot of technical knowledge. The best way to explain it is this. Let's start with the sentence: Mona didn't let her boyfriend dance with any of the cheerleaders. At this point, the listeners doesn't know why Mona didn't let her boyfriend ...

Sep 4, 2020 · Most of the times, I have seen that 'reason being' is used in the middle of a sentence with a fixed expression 'the reason being is that'. As reason being is similar to 'because', can we use it in ...

In the following context, should I use have been done or have been being done? I want to write on the placard of a pathology centre. Here's the sentence: All kinds of investigations have been done...

I can't seem to find the difference on the internet between "getting robbed" and "getting mugged". I would appreciate it if you could explain it to me.

Is being is present progressive tense; addition of the past participle makes it present progressive passive. Development of the product has started but is not yet finished. Present progressive tense can also be used to refer to a future event. This is clearer with your "is being held example": The boat show is being held in August.

Jun 21, 2017 · My friend is writing some documentation and asked me an English question I don't know the answer to. In this case which would it be? CCleaner has been run. or CCleaner has been ran.