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Perfect Stranger Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

To find vs to finding

Dear All,

Here's a sentence I heard in video I watched yesterday. The video is a guitar tutorial for beginners and the tutor talks about finding notes on the guitar neck. At a certain point (when he sums up the lesson towards the end of the video) he says:

That's a good method to finding notes.
  1. First of all, why does he say that is... instead of this is... ? How about it's...
  2. Secondly, would the meaning change if one said "...a good method to find notes"; Would it be a mistake?


Thanks in advance,
  

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Perfect Stranger First of all, why does he say that is... instead of this is... How about it's...

— CalifJim

  • Perfect Stranger First of all, why does he say that is...
  • instead of this is...
  • How about it's...
  • That's (That is) is the standard way of summing up previous texts.
  • "That" usually refers to material already presented earlier in time.
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Perfect StrangerFirst of all, why does he say that is... instead of this is... ? How about it's...
That's (That is) is the standard way of summing up previous texts. "That" usually refers to material already presented earlier in time. "This" usually refers to material about to be presented next in time.
Perfect Strangerwould th
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CalifJimNot really. To my ear both a good method to finding and a good method to find are possible, but less than optimum. I would say a good method for finding.
thanks

is there any difference in meaning between the three of them?
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