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Reegis Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Flirting with your friend's boyfriend is [being] disloyal to her.

Hello.

I came across this sentence:

1) Flirting with your friend's boyfriend is being disloyal to her.

And I wonder what is its difference compared to this:

2) Flirting with your friend's boyfriend is disloyal to her.

Could you please help?
I would guess that 1) concerns one particular situation of being disloyal while 2) is more a general statement about such situations.
  

Top answer

Reegis I would guess that 1) concerns one particular situation of being disloyal while 2) is more a general statement about such situations. No, there is no such difference. The sentences are just two different structures for saying the same thing.

— Mister Micawber

  • Reegis I would guess that 1) concerns one particular situation of being disloyal while 2) is more a general statement about such situations.
  • No, there is no such difference.
  • The sentences are just two different structures for saying the same thing.
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ReegisI would guess that 1) concerns one particular situation of being disloyal while 2) is more a general statement about such situations.
No, there is no such difference. The sentences are just two different structures for saying the same thing.
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Does it also mean that I can use them interchangeably?
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Pretty much. Parallelism would probably incline me towards the 'being' utterance.
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