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Train train 386 Posted 8 years ago
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Planning on visiting vs. planning to visit

More specifically, are "planning on visiting" and "planning to visit" interchangeable in the following sentence:

"I was planning on visiting you during your office hours next week but there was no list to sign up on outside your door."


Also, is this sentence generally correct?

  

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train train 386 More specifically, are "planning on visiting" and "planning to visit" interchangeable in the following sentence: "On visiting" is more informal, that's all. train train 386 Also, is this sentence generally correct? It needs a comma before "but".

  • train train 386 More specifically, are "planning on visiting" and "planning to visit" interchangeable in the following sentence: "On visiting" is more informal, that's all.
  • train train 386 Also, is this sentence generally correct?
  • It needs a comma before "but".
  • Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction normally take a comma.
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train train 386More specifically, are "planning on visiting" and "planning to visit" interchangeable in the following sentence:

"On visiting" is more informal, that's all.

train train 386Also, is this sentence generally correct?

It needs a comma before "but". Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction normally

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train train 386"I was planning on visiting you during your office hours next week but there was no list to sign up on outside your door."

It's fine.

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