Re: Is "is" a verb?

From: DE781 (de781_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 15:42:53 -0700

"Rex F. May" <rex.may@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<BCF48F51.1FF7F%rex.may@comcast.net>...
> in article c98b1ba0.0406150839.56739431@posting.google.com, DE781 at
> de781@aol.com wrote on 6/15/04 10:39 AM:
>
> > "Dylan Nicholson" <wizofaus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:<2j6qmtFub0n6U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> >> "DE781" <de781@aol.com> wrote in message
> >> news:c98b1ba0.0406141453.2e330253@posting.google.com...
> >>
> >>> I am indeed a native speaker of English. I challenge ANYONE to tell
> >>> me that "I'm being well" is not a correct English sentence!
>
> I can imagine a context where it's correct.
>
> (to guy who'd been sick and is resting up)
>
> "What are you doing these days?"
>
> "Not much. I'm being well."
>
> What context did you have in mind?

THANK you! Your example is even better than anything I could come up
with. I used the example of people putting on a play and comparing
how well they're each "being" their part (although, the verb most
likely to be used in such a place would probably be "act"). Any
context works for me, as long as we can prove to these ignorant morons
that there's nothing wrong with "being well".

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