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When can we use of Being and to be

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by erjamit » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:27 pm
Below is OG10 Q15. All the answer choices use being. But as discussed by many people, use of being is almost always wrong on GMAT. So just wanted to know under what conditions being as well as to be can be a correct choices.

In his research paper, Dr. Frosh, medical director of the Payne Whitney Clinic, distinguishes mood swings.
which may be violent without their being grounded in mental disease, from genuine manic-depressive
psychosis.

(A) mood swings, which may be violent without their being grounded in mental disease, from genuine
manic-depressive psychosis

(B) mood swings, perhaps violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine manic-depressive psychosis ,

(C) between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine
manic-depressive psychosis

(D) between mood swings, perhaps violent without being grounded in mental disease, from genuine
manic-depressive psychosis

(E) genuine manic-depressive psychosis and mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease

btw OA is C
idiom usage between X and Y.

Thanks
Amit
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by iamcste » Fri Dec 19, 2008 3:43 am
Any vîews...
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by fx678 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:20 pm
I don't know why A is wrong. Can anyone please explain it?
No pain, no gain.
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by akhpad » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:32 pm
Idiom
Distinguish between x and y
Distinguish X from Y

Eliminated - B, D, E

Now, we have only A and C

(A) mood swings, which may be violent without their being grounded in mental disease, from genuine
manic-depressive psychosis

(C) between mood swings, which may be violent without being grounded in mental disease, and genuine
manic-depressive psychosis

I believe "their" in A is unnecessary so eliminated

Ans C
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by hrishi19884 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:35 pm
https://www.beatthegmat.com/distunguish- ... 15177.html (edited earlier link)

You could have discussed this topic in the above thread instead of opening a new thread.


Anyways, to answer your question - you said- "use of being is almost always wrong on GMAT"

"almost always" doesn't mean Never

You can consider this example as a rare exception.

"to be" is also used as idiom in some cases :

ex : "believed to be"
Hrishi

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by rachelxfr » Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:20 pm
you konw,there being```````/`````being+n./````being+adj./n.+being+done cannot be the right answer.
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