verb `being'

[user_gary]

Is there any sentence with verb `being' as an main verb? Also it shouldn't have any auxiliary verb.

[Philly]

Is this what you mean, Gary?

The children are being naughty.

[user_gary]

Originally Posted by Philly

Is this what you mean, Gary?

The children are being naughty.

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?

[BobK]

Originally Posted by user_gary

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'.

b

[user_gary]

Originally Posted by BobK

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'.

b

Thank you. It is indeed great help.

But somehow I am confused.
Because I haven't come across this kind of sentences which starts with `being'.
Is it non-finite verb in your sentence?

[Casiopea]

Originally Posted by user_gary

Is there any sentence with verb `being' as an main verb? Also it shouldn't have any auxiliary verb.

In addition, being is a participle and, as BobK mentions, it's non-finite, so it can't function as a main verb; however, it can function as part of a verb, as in Philly's example, are being.

In these examples, as well as in BobK's, being has an adjectival function. It modifies the subject, pronominal I:

Ex: I, being of sound mind and body,...
Ex: Being of sound mind and body, I...

All the best.

[Casiopea]

Moreover, the participle being as well as the participle having are different from the other participles in the way they are unfolded.

I, being of sound mind and body,... => I am of sound mind and body.
I, having read that book before,... => I have read that book before.

All the best.