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When can the -ing form of a verb be placed before a noun?
My native-speaker's grammatical intuition tells me that:
There is a sleeping man under the tree.
is fine but
There is a fishing man by the river bank.
is wrong. Why?
I've thought about ...
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Looking forward to follow vs. following
I was reading this today:
We look forward to following your progress.
Am I correct in thinking that it is missing a be or -ing should be removed?
So
We look forward to be following your progress.
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