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Jumanah Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Pay off

What does it mean to say "The expenditure seems to be paying off"?
  

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pay off: to turn out to be profitable, effective, etc. com/dictionary/english/pay-off

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  • pay off: to turn out to be profitable, effective, etc.
  • com/dictionary/english/pay-off
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Is "paying off "in the sentence I wrote an adjective?
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No, "to be paying off" is the continuous (aka progressive) infinitive; i.e. "seems to be paying off" is the continuous-tense form of "seems to pay off".
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When someone says "The expenditure seems to be paying off "
He or she means that the expenditure is turning out to be effective.

Am I right?
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No. The original was seems to be, not is.
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The expenditure seems to be paying off has the same meaning as the expenditure seems to be effective.
Is that correct?!
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JumanahThe expenditure seems to be paying off has the same meaning as the expenditure seems to be effective. Is that correct?!
More or less, yes. (To make the tenses agree, it would be "seems to be being effective", but that is ugly.)
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