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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Search/searching
Sometimes nouns and gerunds are interchangeable. Would they be in the following sentence?
- We started the search at approximately the same time.
- We started the searching at approximately the same time.
- We started the search at approximately the same time.
- We started the searching at approximately the same time.
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Hi maj. I would say that "search" and "searching" are not interchangeable in your examples. The first sentence is the normal way to say this.
- Hi maj.
- I would say that "search" and "searching" are not interchangeable in your examples.
- The first sentence is the normal way to say this.
- Leave out the "the" in the second, and you have a better comparison.
- We started the search or We started searching That's closer to what I would call interchangeable.
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Hi maj. I would say that "search" and "searching" are not interchangeable in your examples. The first sentence is the normal way to say this. Leave out the "the" in the second, and you have a better comparison.
We started the search or We started searching
That's closer to what I would call interchangeable.
We started the search or We started searching
That's closer to what I would call interchangeable.
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