Bagaimana cara penggunaan “being” yang tepat dan benar? Thanks.

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ANSWER:

Penggunaan BEING dalam Bahasa Inggris, antara lain:

A. Dalam kalimat aktif continuous tense yang tidak menggunakan verb, yang pada umumnya pada kalimat yang menggunakan adjective. Dengan digunakannya BEING, adjective tersebut SEDANG in action.

a. Present Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He is being funny. (Dia sedang melucu).
  2. She is being nice to me. (Dia sedang berbaik hati kepadaku).
  3. Ardi is smart. No doubt about it. Sometimes, however,  he is being stupid.  :)

Apa bedanya kalau BEING-nya dihilangkan menjadi:

  1. He is funny.
  2. She is nice to me.
  3. Ardi is smart. No doubt about it. Sometimes, however,  he is stupid.

Jawabannya dapat dibaca di Simple Present Tense vs Present Continuous Tense. Dengan memahami perbedaan ini, kita akan mudah memahami penggunaan BEING + adjective di tensis-tensis continuous berikut.

b. Past Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He was being funny at the party last night. (Dia sedang melucu di pesta tadi malam).
  2. She was being nice to me when you saw us. (Dia sedang berbaik hati kepadaku ketika kamu lihat kami).

c. Present Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He has been being funny for an hour. (Dia telah sedang melucu selama satu jam).
  2. She has been being nice to me since she knew I would be her boss. (Dia telah sedang berbaik hati kepadaku sejak dia tahu aku akan menjadi atasannya).

d. Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He had been being funny when I got there. (Dia telah sedang melucu ketika aku tiba di sana).
  2. She had been being nice to me before I made her stop acting. (Dia telah sedang berbaik hati kepadaku sebelum aku membuatnya berhenti acting).

e. Future Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He will be being funny at the party tonight. (Dia akan sedang melucu di pesta malam ini).
  2. She will be being nice to me when you see us. (Dia akan sedang berbaik hati kepadaku ketika kamu lihat kami).

f. Past Future Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

He would be being funny if he didn’t get a toothache. (Dia akan sedang melucu jika dia tidak sakit gigi).

She wouldn’t be being nice to me if I weren’t her boss. (Dia tidak akan sedang berbaik hati kepadaku jika aku bukan atasannya).

g. Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He will have been being funny for three hours when the show is over in fifteen minutes. (Dia akan telah sedang melucu selam 3 jam ketika pertunjukkannya selesai 15 menit lagi).
  2. By two o’clock, she will have been being nice to me for a week. (Sampai jam 2 ini, dia akan telah sedang berbaik hati kepadaku selama satu minggu).

h. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. He would have been being funny for more than three hours if someone hadn’t stop him. (Dia akan telah sedang melucu selama lebih dari 3 jam jika seseorang tidak mnghentikannya).
  2. She would have been being nice to me for more than a week if I hadn’t made her stop acting. (Dia akan telah sedang berbaik hati kepadaku selama lebih dari seminggu jika aku tidak membuatnya berhenti acting).

B. Dalam kalimat pasif continuous tense yang menggunakan verb.

NOTE: Kalimat aktif yang menggunakan adjective seperti di atas tidak ada bentuk pasifnya.

a. Present Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

The book is being read by my sister. (Buku itu sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku).

The children are being interrogated. (Anak-anak itu sedang diinterogasi).

b. Past Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book was being read by my sister when my brother entered her room. (Buku itu sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku ketika saudara laki-lakiku memasuki kamarnya).
  2. The children were being interrogated when I left. (Anak-anak itu sedang diinterogasi ketika aku pergi).

c. Present Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book has been being read by my sister since an hour ago. (Buku itu telah sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku sejak sejam lalu).
  2. The children have been being interrogated for two hours. (Anak-anak itu telah sedang diinterogasi selama 2 jam).

d. Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

The book had been being read by my sister when my brother entered her room. (Buku itu telah sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku ketika saudara laki-lakiku memasuki kamarnya).

The children had been being interrogated when I left. (Anak-anak itu telah sedang diinterogasi ketika aku pergi).

e. Simple Future Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book will be being read by my sister at 7 o’clock tonight. (Buku itu akan sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku jam 7 malam ini).
  2. The children will be been being interrogated at 10 am tomorrow. (Anak-anak itu akan sedang diinterogasi jam 10 pagi besok).

f. Past Future Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book would be being read by my sister at 7 o’clock last night but it wasn’t. (Buku itu akan sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku jam 7 tadi malam, tapi buku itu tidak jadi dibacanya).
  2. The children would be being interrogated at 10 am this morning but for some reasons they weren’t. (Anak-anak itu akan sedang diinterogasi jam 10 pagi ini tapi karena alasan tertentu mereka tidak jadi diinterogasi).

g. Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book will have been being read by my sister exactly for a week at 7 o’clock tonight. (Buku itu akan telah sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku tepatnya selama seminggu jam 7 malam ini).
  2. The children will have been been being interrogated for three hours by 3 o’clock this afternoon. (Anak-anak itu akan telah sedang diinterogasi selama 3 jam pada jam 3 sore ini).

h. Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense.

Contoh:

  1. The book would have been being read by my sister for more than a week if my brother hadn’t stolen it from her room. (Buku itu akan telah sedang dibaca oleh saudara perempuanku selama lebih dari seminggu jika saudara laki-lakiku tidak mencuri buku itu dari kamarnya).
  2. The children would have been being interrogated for more than three hours if one of them hadn’t confessed of their wrong doing. (Anak-anak itu akan telah sedang diinterogasi selama lebih dari 3 jam jika salah satu dari mereka tidak mengakui perbuatan salahnya).

C. Penggunaan BEING dalam gerundive (gerund) phrases

BEING juga dapat merupakan bentuk gerund dari BE. Verb dan phrasal verb yang diikuti oleh gerund ini dapat dibaca di Gerunds dan Penggunaannya. BEING digunakan jika setelah verb atau phrasal verb tersebut diikuti oleh adjective/noun (seperti poin A) dan diikuti oleh bentuk pasif (seperti poin B).

Contoh:

  1. I made her stop being nice to me. (Aku membuatnya berhenti berbaik hati kepadaku).
  2. I enjoyed being with you last night. (Aku menikmati bersama denganmu tadi malam).
  3. The children hated being interrogated. (Anak-anak itu benci (sanagt tidak suka) diinterogasi).
  4. My older sister objected to not being allowed to go out wit her friends. (Kakak saya keberatan tidak diijinkan keluar rumah dengan teman-temannya).
  5. He is looking forward to being promoted as the new manager in that company. (Dia (sedang) sangat menantikan untuk dipromosikan sebagai manager baru di perusahaan itu).

Dan, phrase ini tentu saja dapat digunakan sebagai subject kalimat.

  1. Being promoted as the new manager in that company makes him very excited.
  2. Being with you is what I always want.

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