Help please

[Ky]

When is it correct to use the word 'being' in a sentence? Any help is appreciated

[Bert]

What's the problem?  I, Fred Boggs, being of sound mind, do hereby bequeath...

The incredible lightness of being.(not a sentence)

I hate being late.

Being short is a disadvantage at rock concerts.

And so on. Please explain your difficulty.

 

[Ky]

I am just unsure as to when I should use being instead of been

[Ouisch]

If you're comparing "being" to "been", then being is more of a present-tense sort of adverb, as in "your son is being very difficult."  Meaning I'm currently trying to take care of him, but he's a pain.  If I say "your son has been difficult", it means he was a pain in the past, but I have no current experience with him.

[Ky]

Thankyou Ouisch

[Peter Pedant]

Oh dear Ky.

Dont thank him too much. Neither are adverbs (which usually end in ---ly. So 'usually' is an adverb

being is a present participle, from the verb to be

I am being tiresome.

been is a past participle, also from the verb to be. It will almost always have the word 'has' or 'have' in front of it.

Your son has been a pain in the neck.

I have been for a hair-cut

This in the past - perfect tense.

Forget adverbs - wrong part of speech.

Being is also a noun. It means existence.

Has-been is also a slang noun meaning a person who is old and decrepit, hwoever I dont think that concerns us here. If you want classical English grammar, you have to ask someone my age (about 150) because  they stopped teaching English grammar in schools about 50years ago for some reason.

 

[Ouisch]

So I misspoke myself by calling "being" an adverb.  Lock me up before I strike again.  The example I gave was still valid, I believe.