想要迅速提高GMAT语法考试成绩，考生就需要熟练掌握一些GMAT语法考试中的必备知识点，并在解题的过程中灵活运用。下面楷维留学指南就给大家说说，GMAT考试语法点之一being的用法总结。

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　　1. being在一般情况下强调事物正在进行或正在保持一种状态，其强调的是动作的连续，而且其相当于一个动词，所以可以用于现分结构中。

　　2. 在介词结构后表达被动，则补出being，且并不表达进行;15/183

　　3. being在逗号后开始句子，则being修饰前面句子(的主语)(即作状语)而不是就近名词;253/256

　　15 – mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease 当要表达被动又跟在介词后，being补出

　　X24 – The 1st decision for most tenants living in a building undergoing being converted to cooperative ownership is … 句中being和undergoing都表示了进行的动作，所以being多余，the phrase being converted is awkward and redundant, since the sense of process indicated by being has already been conveyed by undergoing.

　　X42 – The current administration, being worried about … being在此处纯属多余，worried about是形容词结构，表达一种状态，worried about is preferable when describing a condition rather than an action.

　　X86 – Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the 1st World War, sb … 逻辑性考量外，being/having两个现分结构没必要，In A, the use of the two participles Having and being is ungrammatical.

　　X86 – His right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the 1st World War, sb … 逻辑上判断，being应省略，因为crippled这个动作仅发生在过去，并没有持续，In choice D, being should be omitted.

　　102 – Besides a concert performance being staged by the composer himself in 1911, S’s opera was … 逻辑上判断，being应省略，因为staged这个动作仅发生在过去，并没有持续，C uses the participle being inappropriately.

　　183 – was probably buried to keep it from being stolen by invaders.

　　X223 – the students are being increasingly successful in the job market 强调进行状态，being in C and E is less precise than becoming for describing a pattern of events that is unfolding.

　　230 – smokers frequently express anxiety that their prospects for being hired and promoted are being stunted by their habit. 强调进行状态和同时性

　　X256 – To the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote two letters, being the only eyewitness accounts of the great eruption of Vesuvius. ETS解释：B, the verb phrase that begins being the only eyewitness accounts modifies the subject of the preceding clause, suggesting non-sensically that the nephew of Pliny the Elder himself was the eyewitness accounts.

　　X261 – Being born in Calcutta in 1940 and having been a United States citizen since 1988, author Bharati Mukherjee lived in England and Canada, and first came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. OG解释：the use of progressive forms (Being born, having been. Having been born, and being) implies continuous action, a notion that is not appropriate to the facts being presented. Being只能表达一个连续的动作

　　XB19 - The herbicide Oryzalin was still being produced in 1979, three years after the wives of workers producing the chemical in Rensselaer, New York, were found either to have had miscarriages or children born with heart defects, without any of their pregnancies being normal. 第二个being是因为without介词的缘故;第一个being强调动作进行状态;划线最后部分在正确答案中被改为：none of the pregnancies was

　　以上就是对GMAT语法BEING的用法总结，大家可以通过反复练习逐步掌握其在GAMT语法考试中的使用规律，从而在GMAT语法考试中发挥出更好的水平。