Never Do This: "being that"
Being that the weather was sunny, we went to the beach.
This sentence contains an error in diction. "Being that" is a colloquial phrase that should not be used in formal language or standard written English. Use "because" or "since" instead.
Since the weather was sunny, we went to the beach.
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