andriii
Hi guys,
First of all - sorry for this off topic yet I firmly believe that GMAT verbal experts have all the potential to get the majority of grammar teachers bite the dust.
I have a sentence with being and I think being in this sentence is not correctly used:
The A-Company is benefiting from permanent advisory of C-Holding with Mr.John Jameson being the Chairman of the Board Council.
I kindly ask you to share your thoughts.
Many thanks!
Dear
andriii,
I'm happy to respond.
My friend, this presents a complicated situation. First of all, the GMAT SC is NOT simply a test of grammar; instead, grammar and
logic and
rhetoric are all equally important. On the GMAT SC, many wrong answers are 100% grammatically correct but rhetorically or logically flawed.
What you have written is a sentence in which I think you intend to ask a grammar question, but the sentence has numerous rhetorical problems. This is absolutely not how a well-spoken native speaker would convey this information, and therefore, regardless of the "
being" issue, this never would be the correct answer on a GMAT SC question.
The problem with "
being" is that it is seldom 100% grammatically wrong, but it is often rhetorically flawed: it is not the most concise or most direct or most powerful way to express the information. If I were going to re-write the information in this sentence, I would not use "
being" at all. For example, this version is considerably closer to what could be a correct answer on the GMAT SC:
The permanent advisory of C-Holding, with Mr. John Jameson as Chairman of the Board Council, has provided substantial benefits to A-Company.
That's a direct, powerful version that conveys similar information. That sounds more like a GMAT SC correct answer. In this context, "
as" is a far more natural choice than "
being," when describing a person's professional role:
with [name] as [role].
You see, part of the paradox here is that you are trying to ask a sophisticated rhetorical question, but this example sentence doesn't indicate that you have a similarly sophisticated understanding of rhetorical construction. I suggest it might be counterproductive for you to provide your own example sentences. I would recommend searching GMAT questions (official, or
MGMAT, or
Magoosh) or searching sentences in high quality publications (e.g. NYT, WSJ, the
Economist magazine, etc.) I realize that's more work, but then you can focus on the specific issue on which you want to focus, without introducing other extraneous issues.
Does all this make sense?
Mike