Comments on: Begin To Do and Begin Doing http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/ Sat, 25 May 2013 11:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: sadiya http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9982 sadiya Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:30:29 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9982 hi: it s intersting to make the difference about two sentence its will tell u the two word that u confuse realy and its nice thank u

]]> By: emiliano http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9936 emiliano Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:22:23 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9936 More or less the same as Spnanish lenguage, so for us is easy to understand and to use.
“Ella comenzó actuando de Cenicienta el año pasado” “Ella comenzó a actuar de Cenicienta el año pasado”
“Ella comienza hoy actuando de Blancanieves” “Ella comienza hoy a actuar de Blancanieves”
But:
“Ella esta comenzando a actuar de Blancanieves hoy”
Sorry about the spanish, but it should be useful for some of our friends? I hope so.
Thank you Jeff, I have never thought about these similitudes between English and Spanish.

]]> By: fivestar http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9870 fivestar Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:43:31 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9870 I would appreciate much more if someone explained to me the difference between “all the smth” and “all of the smth”. Jeff always says “all of the definitions” and so forth and, for example, the description of the last episode says “by learning the English words for all the things”.

best regards

]]> By: elcomandant http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9791 elcomandant Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:43:16 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9791 Thank you Jeff, I have reflected about this for use correctly. I think that in Spanish language is the same, so for us, the natives Spanish speakers is easy to understand. in this case we have avantage.
Greetings.

]]> By: Dmitry http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9750 Dmitry Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:16:45 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9750 On a related note, is there any difference between ‘Where do you plan to go?’ and ‘Where do you plan on going?’ ?

]]> By: malika http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9739 malika Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:42:44 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9739 Well, thank you Dr. Jeff for this clarification. It really helps.

By the way, I frequently face a difficulty of using some words that have almost the same meaning, right now I can’t remember any of them to give you an example, and I think it arises in the english language more than in french or spanish languages, that’s what I think. If you can tell me if it’s right or not, that would help me to overcome something that I thought it was a difficulty !

Thank you both Dr. Jeff and Dr. Lucy and all team members. I think, no I’m sure you’ll never be short on new and good ideas to help us improve learning this beautiful language !

]]> By: ESL Podcast Google Group http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9730 ESL Podcast Google Group Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:47:05 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9730 Thanks jeff

]]> By: Shin http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9724 Shin Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:25:47 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9724 Hi I’ve just got a question from your reply.
You told that sentence is not able to use in the present or past progressive. Here is a question, can I use in the future?
ex)”I’ll be begining to act” and “I’ll be begining acting”
What’s correct?

]]> By: Delphy http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/comment-page-1/#comment-9719 Delphy Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:09:52 +0000 http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/2008/08/21/begin-to-do-and-begin-doing/#comment-9719 That’s interesting. The good news for me is the question was raised by Chinese because I’m Chinese too. When I was in my junior or high school, even in my university, I’d never heard about the different use between “begin to do” and “begin doing”. The more I learn from ESL the more I feel the only thing I got from my over 10 years’ English learning is just the words, no verbal, no phrases, no sentances. Faint~~~~

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