Timeline for What is the difference between start(noun) and starting?
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 11:14 | history | edited | user424874 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 10:21 | comment | added | user424874 | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. done my lunch and my edit. You can pass judgment on it a second time. :) | |
| Oct 21, 2023 at 10:17 | history | edited | user424874 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 9:31 | comment | added | user424874 | Happy I got a +1 from you! My initial reasoning is that since "looking forward to" can take "starting" as its complement and it is grammatical, that would imply that "starting" has the property of a noun though overall it is a verb because of its direct object "his job." (Nouns normally cannot take a direct object like that.) Would that make sense? Thank you for your feedback. I'm happy to improve my answer but right now I need to take my lunch. @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. | |
| Oct 21, 2023 at 9:18 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | Does starting in starting his job have any noun type properties at all? For example, can it be modified by an adjective? Maybe if you want to use a verb after a preposition you have to use an -ing form of the verb (and thus the verb has verb-type properties, because it’s a verb)? (+1, but I think the noun-type properties might cause readers problems!) | |
| Oct 21, 2023 at 7:58 | history | edited | user424874 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 7:20 | history | edited | user424874 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 21, 2023 at 6:48 | history | answered | user424874 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |