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Can you start a sentence with "being"? I am serious, don't laugh me off the board! lol
There was a grammar choice with "Being that I am new here, blah, blah, blah".
I don't even remember if I picked it or not, but is it proper to begin a sentence like that? I know people speak like that, but I have never seen a sentence structured like that...
"badly" and "differently" in another choice in the same question. He acted differently when the the squad started questioning him. I don't even remember what the right answer was on that one?
I'm pretty sure 'he acted differently' was incorrect then again I'm very sure of nothing on that test. I find it funny though that people who speak english even worse than me are convinced they got all the grammar questions right. I'll be the first to say it, THAT TEST WAS CULTURALLY BIASED!!!
Why is he "acted differently" the incorrect sentence? I really don't know, I am just an ignorant cop. Acted past tense verb with some sort of odd adjective or adverb? I don't even know? I am a dumbass...
you could answer "Being means too exist". That sentence (Being means exist.), is proper. Stupid explaination, but proper nonetheless. So yes, in a rediculous way, you can start a sentence with the word "being". Kind of like the old "Aint aint a word" thing.
BTW, did anyone notice the different spellings of the personnel? I dont know if it came into play on the test, but officer Bishop was referred to somewhere else in the material, as "Biship". Again, my head was spinning, so I dont even know if that had any relevance.
Couldn't that be done with every word in the dictionary though? It was used in the context of a present tense verb to start a sentence, wouldn't a more proper sentence begin with "I am new here so ... yada yada yada. Start with the subject/noun first? I am not sure if I am right, but it sounds right. I am not sure if it is 100% wrong, but I couldn't eliminate the others, it just sounded wrong...
Hey guys, I was an English major in college. You can start a sentence Being.
You can even start a sentence with "because" even though it is frowned upon.
You usually have a verb, subject, and a noun. Though, you could have a sentence that only has a verb. Run! Run, as I just used it is a propper sentence. They did the same crap on sergeant's test and they even made the correct answer to choose a jab at cops. The answer was So many cops only obtain an associate degree. Some cops didn't pick it because they thought the spacing was wrong. It was quite strange. Some thought you needed a comma after So, but you didn't. That answer was a shot at cops being dumb.
So were the right choice all in capital letters being incorrect, even though all over the dept that are spelled in that manner and in our study materials?
