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confusion - should i keep be verb here ?

 
 
Chen Ta
 
Reply Sat 14 Mar, 2015 12:11 am
Thanks for reading my question and please forgive my poor English.

I want to combine these three sentences by using Ving sentence.

Sentence 1: That sick looking guy is Erik
Sentence 2: Erik is standing there
Sentence 3: Erik is surrounded by a bunch of young girls.

My sentence :
That sick looking guy standing there being surrounded by a bunch of young girls is Erik.

Question :
I'm confused should i keep the word , "being", in the sentence or should i write like this way :

That sick looking guy standing there surrounded by a bunch of young girls is Erik.




If both of the sentences is correct, is there any difference between them ?

Thanks in advance
Chen
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 14 Mar, 2015 01:51 am
Don't use 'being'.
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Sat 14 Mar, 2015 10:47 am
@Chen Ta,
Con is of course right, Chen, although "being" is okay if it's before he's fully surrounded
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sat 14 Mar, 2015 12:34 pm
That sick looking guy standing there surrounded by a bunch of young girls is Erik.

Erik has already been surrounded by a group of girls.

"Being surrounded" means the activity is taking place at the present time.

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