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In fact, there seem to be a whole range of - ing form uses that cover a spectrum from total verby-ness to total nouny-ness (not to mention total adjectivey-ness), and with lots of instances that are somewhere in between.
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Yule (1998), for example, argues that the choice is semantic, and that the to form (as in He begins to speak) connotes more verby-ness than nouny-ness, while the - ing form is just the opposite.
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In fact, there seem to be a whole range of - ing form uses that cover a spectrum from total verby-ness to total nouny-ness (not to mention total adjectivey-ness), and with lots of instances that are somewhere in between.
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Yule (1998), for example, argues that the choice is semantic, and that the to form (as in He begins to speak) connotes more verby-ness than nouny-ness, while the - ing form is just the opposite.
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In my normal life I wouldn't have believed that kind of thing, especially not from verby archetype man.
It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011
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And, oh, there were those verby songs that served as templates for our own goofy initial attempts at songwriting.
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Iz mai wush ewe iz fairy verby wunerful happi dis yurz.
Eberybudy wants to picks me up - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Unless 3rd world kids are truly different, aren't they just going to play video games and myspace which has become a verby btw?
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Ek het daarop die Sten-masjiengeweer en twee magasyne geneem en kort sarsies na die regterkant oor en voor die skare verby gevuur.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Alhoewel dit darem al Woensdag is more so die week is amper verby.
janedoe0 Diary Entry janedoe0 2007
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