Being or Is

Hello Friends,

This is the original sentence.

THE scale and intensity of unprecedented transformations and interventions have enhanced the vulnerability of many integrated social-ecological systems, the Sundarbans being one of them.

I would like to know whether using "is" instead of "being" here would be grmmatically legitimate. I didn't understand why the writer has used "being" instead of "is".

Could some one please explain.

Thanks

Sabya

Thanks a lot Grammar Geek.

As my english is not very strong I couldn't understand your explanation very clearly. Could you please elaborate on this.

Thanks,

Sabya

Thanks Barbara,

I seached for "comma splice" on the Internet after I saw your reply and consulted a book on punctuation (By Oxford University Press). What I understood is "comma splice" is a common error that most of the people often make.

The book said "It's not normally correct to join the clauses of a compund sentence without a conjunction (the so-called "comma splice").

For example,

*His was the last house,the road ended with him

Now this could be corrected as

His was the last house, and the road ended with him.

or

His was the last house; the road ended with him.

As you suggested this can also be corrected as

His was the last house, the road being ended with him (Please correct me if i am wrong).

So we have three ways to correct "comma splice" 1) put a conjunction 2) put semicolon 3) use -ing clause.

I have one more question.

In the below sentence.

Kim is an actor, Pat is a teacher, and Tim is an engineer.

In this case, can it be a case of "comma splice" and corrected as

Kim is an actor, and Pat is a teacher, and Tim is an engineer.

Could you please calrify my doubts.

Thanks,

Sabya