Timeline for Can I use a gerund after "stopping"? [duplicate]
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| Oct 10, 2020 at 0:28 | history | closed |
Rayan Khan Lambie Eddie Kal |
Duplicate of Two consecutive gerunds? -ing -ing? | |
| Oct 6, 2020 at 10:42 | comment | added | Fra | @BillJ So, how would you phrase the sentence then? How about, "without ceasing to..."? Or, "without stopping THE scrolling on..."? | |
| Oct 3, 2020 at 9:27 | comment | added | BillJ | The simple answer is no. The succession of two gerund-participials is excluded with certain verbs by what is known as the 'doubl-ing constraint', which typically applies with a small sub-set of catenative verbs like "begin", "cease", "continue", "start", "stop". | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 14:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 2, 2020 at 14:38 | comment | added | Fra | @Wistful. I guess it does answer my question, although the example sentences used in that post don't include a negative. I'm still left with the possibility that the use of two consecutive gerunds after "without" might sound odd to a native English speaker, who perhaps might formulate the sentence in a different way. But maybe I'm just being overly paranoid. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 14:27 | comment | added | Rayan Khan | @DhanishthaGhosh, Good find! | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 14:25 | comment | added | Dhanishtha Ghosh | ell.stackexchange.com/questions/44078/… | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 13:51 | history | asked | Fra | CC BY-SA 4.0 |