Why does the author include "being in" in the sentence.
Hi, there is a sentence from my reading. I am not sure why the author includes "being in" in the sentence. Personally, the phase seems to be a bit of unnecessary.
“About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space come into being in what is known as the Big Bang.”
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Hi Yi Zhang. 'To come into being' is an idiomatic way of saying 'to start to exist'. So in this case, the concept of matter, energy, time and space started to exist with the arrival of the Big Bang.
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