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| Autor: | pat |
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| Data: | 18/MAI/2003 7:56 PM |
| Assunto: | Re: Looking foward to ...ing? |
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Hello again Mike, So there is no need to have terms to describe the difference between using the ING form as a noun vs as a verb? For instance, in that old cliche "when the going gets tough, the tough get going", the first case is a noun and the second a verb form. There are countless examples as pretty much any AS verb in the ING form can be used as a noun. It is interesting that the same phenomenon occurs with the Latinate verbs but the ending is -ED; "the impoverished", for example. |
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Looking foward to ...ing? – Jorge Santos 
15/MAI/2003, 3:05 PM Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – Andréa 15/MAI/2003, 6:15 PM Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – michael robertson 17/MAI/2003, 6:07 PM 
Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – pat 18/MAI/2003, 7:56 PM Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – michael robertson 19/MAI/2003, 1:19 AM Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – pat 19/MAI/2003, 7:53 AM Re: Looking foward to ...ing? – orlando 15/MAI/2003, 6:49 PM