[Grammar] Usage of being

Hi all,

i do not understand the usage of the word being to express the passive.

When i want to express, that a message will be displayed on the screen of a computer, google translate suggests me this:

The message is displayed.

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Why not this:

The message is being displayed.

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?

mamue said:

Hi all,

I do not understand the usage of the word being to express the passive.

When I want to express, that a message will be displayed on the screen of a computer, google translate suggests me this:



Why not this:



?

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If you want to express that the message will be displayed, surely "The message will be displayed" is the way to express it.

bhaisahab said:

If you want to express that the message will be displayed, surely "The message will be displayed" is the way to express it.

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Thanks,-that's what google says.

But why?

The dog is being beaten... ?
The dog is beaten... ?

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As the dog is the (poor) object, i would use passive and from my understanding i then would have to write

The dog is being beaten.

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If this is also wrong, please give me an example, where "being" is used.

mamue said:

As the dog is the (poor) object, I would use passive and from my understanding I then would have to write

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Please note that (as bhaisahab pointed out in his reply), in English, the first person singular pronoun I is always capitalized (just like the third person, formal pronoun Sie in German)

We use progressive and non-progressive forms in the passive just as we do in the active:

That man is beating his dog. - The dog is being beaten.
He beats his dog every day. - The dog is beaten every day.

5jj said:

We use progressive and non-progressive forms in the passive just as we do in the active:

That man is beating his dog. - The dog is being beaten.
He beats his dog every day. - The dog is beaten every day.

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Fine, I think I understand now :

being is used, when I want to express that something happens at the moment... it is the progressive form.

So when I display an error message every time an error occurs, I would not use being.

Thank you.