Timeline for When do 'being' and 'to be' mean the same and when they not?
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 19:03 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I didn't say 'always connotes'. But I'm just warning you that a full answer could perhaps take 30 pages. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:42 | comment | added | Rocky | This is confusing | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:35 | comment | added | Rocky | I just heard this sentence in a movie where someone said "I'm happy to be here" while walking in the garden with someone.Unlike you stated that it often connotes 'I almost didn't make it', ie an arrival (and perhaps a brush with death). | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:29 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I suggest you look up the term 'present participle' in OED to see whether they acknowledge the compound noun. Most other dictionaries do. I think the above 'comment' is at best mischievous. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Greybeard | The present participle, in spite of its name, gives no time reference. It is called "a participle", not "the present participle". It indicates a state or action that was incomplete at the time referred to.++ Likewise the infinitive has no tense, but indicates the state or action as a whole. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:19 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Now you are introducing different strings. The above deals with (A) the [... excited / worried / concerned ... about being etc ...] string and the [ ... excited / happy / privileged ... to be ...] string. 'I would love to be there' talks of a desired, irrealis state. 'I'm happy being/living here' is acceptable. 'I'm happy to be here' often connotes 'I almost didn't make it', ie an arrival (and perhaps a brush with death). You're asking about a fairly large proportion of the language now. | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 18:05 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 17:58 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | Rocky | But we also say 'I would love to be there' which is not an existing state. Also why we don't say I'm happy being here? Why we say I'm happy to be here when they both mean the same ? | |
| Apr 28, 2020 at 17:01 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |