imaging sb doing 和 imaging sb be doing 区别

Can you imagine those people, including Brother Sharp, ______ popular suddenly on the Internet?
A. are B. were C. be D. being
正确答案是being；为什么选are是错的？把从those people开始看作宾语从句不可以吗？

这题选 BEING,因为题目里有个插入语，including Brother Sharp，因此，要对称，be 用being 的形式

如果没有这个插入语，可以用are,但是，如果在people 处加逗号，还是可以用being ,是现在分词，非谓语

不可以，是很明显的主语，including Brother Sharp修饰those people，简化之后的句式 imagine sb doing sth（popular suddenly on the Internet），用are的话，缺少宾语 再看看别人怎么说的。