I have started hating you.

0 01b00To hate02b00 doesn't quite work in progressive:02br
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0In this case, I think gerund is OK. at least statistics read so.02br
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00"started to hate" site:bbc.co.uk = 602br
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00"started hating" site:bbc.co.uk = 1002br
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00"started to hate" site:nytimes.com = 202br
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00"started hating" site:nytimes.com = 902br
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0The verb 'start' can be followed either by an infinitive or a gerund (among other things 05000).02br
00I see no problem in using 'started hating'.02br
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00Jackson, 'hating' is a gerund. A gerund is the "-ing form" of a verb used as a noun. It is not at all unusual to use the gerund 'hating'.02br
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00To me, there is nothing odd o

0Hi Amy, 02br
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00Perhaps, the spot where I stood didn’t have the same luminance as yours, and thus caused me to see things differently. 02br
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00Please allow me to work with my imagination. If someone said “I have started hating/ to hate my job since my new boss started to work / working here”. 00 00How would you comment?00 00With is

0 Hi Goodman02br
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00Somehow I can't help thinking that your discomfort lies in the fact that the verb 'hate' is generally not used in a 01u00continuous 01b00tense02b02u00.02br
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00However, you should not confuse 01u00gerunds02u00 and 01u00tenses02u00. Those are

0To me, "I have started hating you" positions the speaker within the very act of "hating"; whereas "I have started to hate you" presents the phenomenon from the outside, as a whole.02br
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00Thus the gerund seems more "passionate", and the infinitive more "calculating". I would expect a spontaneous dose of arsenic from the former; but a perfect, well-planned fatal "accident