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tense -"I look forward" or"I'm looking forward"? - English Language ...
12. These are both correct. I would add, though, that I'm looking forward to our meeting sounds (to me, at least) more conversational (and a bit more genuine), whereas I look forward to our meeting is a bit more formal/polite. I would expect to find the I'm looking form in spoken language, and the I look form in writing (likely at the end of an ...
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How"looking forward to watching me play" makes sense grammatically
They were looking forward to watching me play. is technically incorrect. My teacher suggests that. They were looking forward to watching my playing. is a"more correct" version since the phrase"watching my playing" can be deconstructed as (watching (my playing)), which can't be said about the first sentence.
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infinitive vs gerund - The usage of"looking forward to" - English ...
You look forward to something (where"something" must be a noun phrase). So if what you're looking forward to is an activity identified using a verb, you need the"nouny" -ing verb form... I'm looking forward to having a rest I look forward to resting I looked forward to my birthday etc.
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Looking forward to talk to you or looking forward to talking to you ...
I look forward to [meeting you for dinner tonight]. I look forward to [eating dinner with you tonight]. I look forward to [seeing you for dinner tonight]. I look forward to [dining with you tonight]. By the way, despite the fact that I use different actions, all of these sentences mean more or less the same thing. Or I could avoid the gerund ...
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Is"look forward for" a correct phrase? - English Language Learners ...
6. Looking forward to is correct and is often followed by a word ending in"ing" (but not necessarily)."I look forward to having dinner with you" or"I look forward to your visit". As previously stated, for + that which is (possibly) anticipated. It's awkward but I did locate some uses of"for" following"forward" where forward is used as the ...
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In formal writing, what are alternatives forms of"I look forward to ...
I look forward to *talk with you. I look forward to *hear from you. The structure"look forward to" is followed by a gerund. (Take a look at this question) Also a Google search might bring up relevant results. I got this tutorial as the first result. So, the correct forms of your sentences are. I look forward to talking with you. I look forward ...
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"look forward to meet you", or"to meeting you"? [duplicate]
I look forward to me/my meeting you during the coming festival. I know of no reason why look forward to doesn’t like that clauses; it just doesn’t. But it is a general rule that phrasal verbs whose last piece is the preposition to don’t take infinitive complements, because that would put the two to s next to each other, which would be confusing:
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Looking forward to see you vs Looking forward to seeing you?
I was looking forward to this weekend, but I got sick. So in this case, you have to use a gerund, the noun form of a verb following forward to. In English, the gerund is identical to the present progressive, so you get sentences like. I look forward to seeing you. I look forward to meeting you. I'm looking forward to dogsledding this winter.
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which one is correct,"looking forward to hear" OR"looking forward to ...
I'm looking forward to the next installment; I'm looking forward to your response; As you probably know, a noun phrase may be a gerundive, i.e., the nominalized -ing form of the verb, as in playing piano is relaxing, where the subject is playing piano. I'm looking forward to seeing him again; I'm looking forward to reading the next installment ...
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Should"I look forward to see you" be in Present Continuous tense?
The GloWbE corpus has 2939 instances of"look forward to seeing" against 125 of"look forward to see" - that's 96%. However, I notice that in examples from India, Bangla Desh, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia, the figure is only about 80%; so"look forward to see" would appear to be more common in those countries (and I suspect Pakistan too, but there are few instances from there in the corpus).
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