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English word
be
A1Frequent NGSL-1used when you are naming people or things, describing them or giving more information about them
used with a present participle to form progressive tenses
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We want to be excited about what's going to happen.
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)
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I should be by now, you know—it was almost a—I mean, I'm going to say it was a year to the day.
Dude, I'm doing pretty freaking amazing to be honest.
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