Timeline for 'to+verb' vs 'to+be+verb-ing'
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| May 25 at 19:15 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ...since it's "hidden" in the comments, I should confess that I originally wrote ...when they don't hear exactly what they might be expecting as my penultimate sentence. Which I reluctantly changed to ...what they might expect when I realized I was apparently contradicting myself! But I'm not a learner, so maybe I should have just stuck with "Do as I say, not as I do!" | |
| May 25 at 18:25 | comment | added | Paul Tanenbaum | Per @KateBunting, Captain Jeffrey T. Spalding (Groucho Marx), sings in Animal Crackers, “Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say, ‘I must be going.’” And I cannot but add that his song ends with, “I’ll stay a week or two, I’ll stay the summer through. But I am telling you, I must be going.” | |
| May 25 at 17:39 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | But I must be going is fairly well-established. | |
| May 25 at 15:38 | history | answered | FumbleFingers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |