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Which one is correct?

You can start making the changes in your design.

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You can start make changing in your design.

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    Which one do you think is correct? Have you found any examples of either of them? It might suggest something that "you can start make" returns five results, and "you can start making" returns about 5,940.
    – stangdon
    Commented Nov 13, 2016 at 13:31

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Your first sentence (making the changes) is correct, because the changes are the things being made.

Because the changes are things, they must be nouns. It can then be determined that your second sentence (making changing) is not correct because "changing" is the gerund form of the verb.

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  • English is so weird, I can think of several tiny changes in the wording that drastically alter the meaning. Some of them have multiple meanings themselves. Gives me compassion for ell's.
    – Stew C
    Commented Mar 27, 2017 at 23:10

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