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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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must be hitting

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00I`d love to stay longer but I must be hitting the road02br
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00I`d love to stay longer but I must hit the road02br
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00Why- must be hitting -, and not 01del00I`m must hitting02del00 ??0-
  

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) take the bare infinitive (01i 00must be, can go, will see02i 00, etc), not the -ing form. 0-

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  • ) take the bare infinitive (01i 00must be, can go, will see02i 00, etc), not the -ing form.
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0Modals (01i00must, can, will02i00, etc.) take the bare infinitive (01i00must be, can go, will see02i00, etc), not the -ing form. In your two sentences, 01i00must be hitting02i00 makes the statement a little more immediate or polite or of concern to the speaker than does 01i00must hit02i00-- but the diff
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01cite10Anonymous12cite10What is a dirrerence between these two sentences:12br
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10I`d love to stay longer but I must be hitting the road = 11font10I must be going12font12br
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10I`d love to stay longer but I must hit the road. 11font
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0How about this?02br
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00I must hit the sack. It's been a long day.02br
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00It's an idiom and please don't hit the sack though.0-
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0Yes.02br
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00Also, getting hit in one's wallet, getting hit with a law suit/ problems etc...0-
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