being issue

[allfta]

Ron says that we should try to avoid "being" when it comes to IDENTITY or CHARACTERISTICS of some individual or thing.

Please explain the acceptability of following sentences ;

1. " Cooperative apartment houses have the peculiar distinction of being dwellings that must also operate as businesses." (x)
"Cooperative apartment houses have the peculiar distinction that, as dwellings, they must also operate like businesses" (0)
: is second sentence right because the being used in first one is talking about IDENTITY?


2. He has a distinctive quality of being rude at trivial conversations (0) : one says this one is right. is it? And, if so, why is it even being here represents CHARACTERISTICS of a person?

3. a Black American"”the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (0)
: In my understanding I can use being only as "noun" or as "passive progress tense". what is the role of being here?

Thank you.

[RonPurewal]

Hi,
This folder is for problems from the GMAT PREP software only. For questions like this one, please re-post in the General Verbal Questions folder.

Thanks.