Timeline for "He likes swimming" or "He likes to swim"?
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| Oct 30, 2022 at 20:04 | vote | accept | Trident D'Gao | ||
| Jul 30, 2016 at 16:58 | comment | added | John Lawler | That sentence isn't ambiguous, though. Rather, there are two sentences and they have distinct structures. In one sentence swimming is the verb of an object gerund clause with he understood as its subject, and in the other it's a noun like golf or football. Naturally, the two sentences don't mean the same thing. | |
| Feb 5, 2013 at 9:48 | vote | accept | Trident D'Gao | ||
| Jul 8, 2017 at 1:47 | |||||
| Feb 5, 2013 at 2:46 | comment | added | temporary_user_name | Smart distinction. I hadn't thought of that. | |
| Feb 5, 2013 at 2:43 | history | answered | Jim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |