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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Use of gerunds versus infinitive verbal

Example:

I went shopping today. (How is 'shopping' used in this sentence?)

Can one say: I went to shop today?
  

Top answer

' You can say this when you want to say that the place you went to was a shop (noun). Besides in this sentence an article is needed. 'I went shopping today.

— Proto

  • ' You can say this when you want to say that the place you went to was a shop (noun).
  • Besides in this sentence an article is needed.
  • 'I went shopping today.
  • )' In this sentence shopping is a verb and this is how we say what were we doing in the shop
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'Can one say: I went to shop today?'
You can say this when you want to say that the place you went to was a shop (noun). Besides in this sentence an article is needed.

'I went shopping today. (How is 'shopping' used in this sentence?)'
In this sentence shopping is a verb and this is how we say what were we doing in the shop
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AnonymousI went shopping today. (How is 'shopping' used in this sentence?)
You go ---ing, where the -ing word represents an activity, usually a pleasant amusement involving light exercise. In the most typical examples, you actually have to go somewhere to do these things.

to go [shopping / swimming / hunting / dancing / fishing / boatin
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