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AdityaHongunti
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daagh
Thank you for the gesture daagh
Always appreciate wisdom more than mere tricks.
according to GMATNinja "being" is correctly used in places where there is need of a TEMPORARY STATE . There are couple of official questions in which such usage is appropriated.
Nonetheless bottom line to remember -
In GMAT - "being" as a modifier is wrong.
Thank you for your response
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AdityaHongunti
30 Sep 2018, 09:00
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samusa
Scroll up pal. daagh has provided many official examples in which usage of being is incorrect
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Official Veritas Solution
Correct Answer: A
This question tests the Sentence Construction theme of parallel structure. The underlined portion of the original sentence begins a compound participial phrase "having been given x or having been assigned y" which, while wordy, is parallel and grammatically correct.
Answer D uses the compound clause "they have been given x or were assigned y" and answer E uses "they have x or been y". Neither of these constructions is parallel, and both can be eliminated.
Answers B uses the parallel construction "having x or being assigned y", but the participial phrase "being assigned" is stylistically awkward and differs in meaning from the superior "having been assigned y". Answer C uses this same construction and commits a Sentence Construction error by incorrectly joining the participial phrase to the main clause through incorrect use of the conjunction/preposition "as". Only the original sentence A keeps the meaning intact while using parallel structure in the compound participial phrase.
