Being published or Published? please help me, thank u!
_________ as it was at such a time, his work attracted much attention.

why we choose “Published ” instead of “Being published ”?

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Being published or Published? please help me, thank u!
_________  as it was at such a time, his work attracted much attention.

why we choose “Published ” instead of  “Being published ”?

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Wow!  Thank you very much! I get it!

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Hello Jing.

"Being published" is not used here because this example is not in the past continuous tense. This sentence is in the past tense (attracted); it is talking about a specific point in the past where something was published. "Being" can be used in present or past continuous tenses.
Though honestly, "Being published" doesn't sound so unnatural. If i heard a native speaker say this, I wouldn't really think much about it. Hope this helped.

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