Hasibul Alam Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

I can not understand the why "BEING " IS USED here?

The last time being when she received a nasty bite to the arm.

  

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Hasibul Alam The last time being when she received a nasty bite to the arm. This is not a complete sentence. It should have been attached to the previous sentence after a comma.

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Hasibul Alam

The last time being when she received a nasty bite to the arm.

This is not a complete sentence. It should have been attached to the previous sentence after a comma.

Nevertheless, being has the meaning of was in this clause.

More generally, being is related to

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That is a fragment — part of a longer sentence.

What came before it?

For example I've been to A&E twice, the first time being when I broke my arm.

(Cross-posted)