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2011年8月23日 · 7. It's a bit tricky but you have to learn to tell whether the "To" is being used as (A.) part of an Infinitive or (B.) a Preposition. Once you develop this skill, you can follow this: Infinitive "To" = to + base verb. Preposition "To" = to + Noun, Pronoun, V+ing. Examples of Infinitive "To" are:
2011年2月23日 · The two -ing 's are actually not the same etymologically. One developed from Proto-Germanic * -ungō, which has survived in contemporary German (packaging — Verpackung). The other -ing developed from Old English -ende, from Proto-Germanic * -andz — again, compare contemporary German (singing — singend) — and goes back to the Proto-Indo ...
2012年3月1日 · Use [ŋ] (which is usually represented in English spelling as 'ng') and not [n], [ŋg], or [ng]. The local dialect in several regions of the U.S., and apparently in parts of Britain as well, uses [ɪn] rather than [ɪŋ] for the suffix -ing. This is sometimes spelled -in'. The people speaking these dialects can pronounce the consonant [ŋ] just ...
10. The verb to expect always takes an infinitive complement: I expect it to rain. They expect us to present tomorrow. This is the normal way of forming sentences with expect. Your last example above is, as you suspected, grammatically incorrect: *I will expect you doing well. The other example that you gave with expect + -ing is something else.
2020年4月15日 · I have the following sentence and I need your help: "Renewable energy sources can contribute to achieving the climate goals" Is this correct or do I have to write: "Renewable energy sources can
They have a different meaning. “Try to” implies that the action that is attempted may or may not succeed. Try to give up candy; maybe you will succeed in refraining from eating candy, or maybe you will succumb to the temptation and eat candy anyway. “Try + -ing” indicates that the action may or may not have the desired result.
2014年3月8日 · Starting a sentence with a word ending in -ing is perfectly ordinary, accepted, unremarkable English. Beginning, middle, or end of a paragraph; gerund, participle, or simply a word with that particular spelling— it does not matter.
2017年4月19日 · 1 1 1. All your -ing forms (standing, pausing, staring) are tenseless present participles, not tensed finite verbs; the time reference of the clauses they head is inferred from the time reference of the finite clauses to which they are attached. The had VERBed constructions are past perfects, indicating that the event designated by the trailing ...
17. "Have been reading" is in the present perfect continuous tense. The present perfect and present perfect continuous do not require that the action has been completed. This tense is actually used to describe actions in the past that have a connection to the present. Either the action has been completed (approximately) now or it will continue ...
2012年7月27日 · Should I add ing behind the verb after proceed to just like how it should be after look forward to? Now proceed to writing on the paper. Or should I just express it this way? Now proceed to write on the paper.
