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The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 10th Edition, 2003
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Question No.: SC 86
Page: 666
Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War, Horace Pippin, a Black American painter, worked by holding the brush in his right hand and guiding its movements with his left.Practice Question
Question No.: SC 86
Page: 666
(A) Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(B) In spite of his right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(C) Because there had been a sniper’s bullet during the First World War that crippled his right hand and arm
(D) The right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(E) His right hand and arm crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/31/books/in-the-whirl-and-muddle-of-war.html
Sometime in the late 1920's, Horace Pippin, a black American veteran of World War I, began to write his memories of his war. It must have been difficult: Pippin was not a writer and was not very well educated. Even the physical act of writing was hard for him, for his right hand and arm had been crippled by a sniper's bullet and he could scarcely hold a pen. Yet he tried several drafts of a war narrative before he gave the writing up and turned to drawing and finally to painting. That, too, was a struggle; he had to hold the brush in his crippled right hand and guide its movements with his left. He worked at one painting for three years, giving it, he reckoned, a hundred coats of paint. It was called ''The End of the War: Starting Home,'' and it hangs now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art - a strange and powerful image of the violence that he remembered.
Sometime in the late 1920's, Horace Pippin, a black American veteran of World War I, began to write his memories of his war. It must have been difficult: Pippin was not a writer and was not very well educated. Even the physical act of writing was hard for him, for his right hand and arm had been crippled by a sniper's bullet and he could scarcely hold a pen. Yet he tried several drafts of a war narrative before he gave the writing up and turned to drawing and finally to painting. That, too, was a struggle; he had to hold the brush in his crippled right hand and guide its movements with his left. He worked at one painting for three years, giving it, he reckoned, a hundred coats of paint. It was called ''The End of the War: Starting Home,'' and it hangs now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art - a strange and powerful image of the violence that he remembered.
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GMAT is guiding you in this example. B has "being". being is used for a process.
Thanks for the question
Here is a tip (from Master Sarai
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TIP: "BEING" IS CORRECT WHEN DESCRIBING A PROCESS. SO IF YOU CAN INSERT "IN THE PROCESS OF" BEFORE THE "BEING" AND WIND UP WITH A SENSIBLE SENTENCE, THE "BEING" IS CORRECT!
(B) In spite of his right hand and arm (is in the process of ) being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War ---> B means "his right hand and arm" is in the process of being crippled during the First World War- this is not possible unless someone revisits the World War now.
Thanks for the question
Here is a tip (from Master Sarai
)TIP: "BEING" IS CORRECT WHEN DESCRIBING A PROCESS. SO IF YOU CAN INSERT "IN THE PROCESS OF" BEFORE THE "BEING" AND WIND UP WITH A SENSIBLE SENTENCE, THE "BEING" IS CORRECT!
(B) In spite of his right hand and arm (is in the process of ) being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War ---> B means "his right hand and arm" is in the process of being crippled during the First World War- this is not possible unless someone revisits the World War now.
Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War, Horace Pippin, a Black American painter, worked by holding the brush in his right hand and guiding its movements with his left.
(A) Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(B) In spite of his right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(C) Because there had been a sniper’s bullet during the First World War that crippled his right hand and arm
(D) The right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(E) His right hand and arm crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
This is a topic in which one can remove a good three choices if he or she is aware that 'being' used in a modifier phrase is an instant discard in GMAT.
Being, however, is not incorrect all the times. In some cases when 'being' is used in a substantive phrase, a suitable verb will follow 'the phrase to indicate that the substantive phrase taken as a unit is acting as the subject. The other such instance when 'being' will be correct is when the word is used in a passive voice clause, in which case it will be preceded by a verb. In all other instances, use of 'being', at least in the wonderland of GMAT, will be redundant and incorrect.
Therefore we can discard A, B, and D instantly. C is saying that it is the first world war that crippled his arm and hand, a wrong allusion.
Finally, E remains.
How much more quickly can one get to the winning post?
(A) Having the right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(B) In spite of his right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(C) Because there had been a sniper’s bullet during the First World War that crippled his right hand and arm
(D) The right hand and arm being crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
(E) His right hand and arm crippled by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War
This is a topic in which one can remove a good three choices if he or she is aware that 'being' used in a modifier phrase is an instant discard in GMAT.
Being, however, is not incorrect all the times. In some cases when 'being' is used in a substantive phrase, a suitable verb will follow 'the phrase to indicate that the substantive phrase taken as a unit is acting as the subject. The other such instance when 'being' will be correct is when the word is used in a passive voice clause, in which case it will be preceded by a verb. In all other instances, use of 'being', at least in the wonderland of GMAT, will be redundant and incorrect.
Therefore we can discard A, B, and D instantly. C is saying that it is the first world war that crippled his arm and hand, a wrong allusion.
Finally, E remains.
How much more quickly can one get to the winning post?
