Learn English – How is it valid to say : “we are also be talking about”

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So, I read the sentence "But we are also be talking about …[a subject]" somewhere and at that moment I just thought it's a mistake. However I googled it and interestingly found many similar cases!
Now, would you let me know how is this sentence composed and what's the role of 'be' in this sentence, please.
I've already heard something like "we will also be talking about", but how should I interpret this case?

And the last but not least question is that is it possible to extend it to other tenses and say something like "we were also be talking about…"?

Please feel free to edit the title of this question and remove this sentence consequently as I could not find a better one.

Best Answer

Yes, this is a mistake. I can see 6 Google results for "we are also be talking about", but four of those are from the same (possibly Chinese?) source, one also looks to be Chinese, and the remaining link is an automatically-generated transcript from a video, and therefore cannot be trusted to be correct.

The correct phrasing is "But we are also talking about...". The extra "be" is wrong because the verb "to be" is already present in the form of "are".

To answer your remaining questions: "we will also be talking about" is correct because "will" is necessary to signal that we are talking about the future. Other tenses don't use "be" like this, so "we were also be talking about" is incorrect.

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