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Default Re: verb `being'

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Originally Posted by user_gary View Post
Thank you.

No.
Here it has `auxiliary verb' are. I want to know about the sentence which don't have any auxiliary verb and stands alone by verb `being' as main verb.

Is there any such sentences?
But 'being' isn't finite, so how can it be a main verb?

Do you mean a sentence like this:

Being a student of languages, I can sometimes recognize the problem a student is having.

? The main verb there is 'recognize'.

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