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Correct use of being perfectly right... Sun Jun 03, 2007 13:03 pm  Correct use of being perfectly right...
 

Hi!

Could anyone please destroy my confusion about the correct use of ..being perfectly right to do s.th. or ..being perfectly right doing s.th?

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Correct use of being perfectly right... Sun Jun 03, 2007 13:47 pm  Correct use of being perfectly right...
 

Hi,

Interesting question, Michael. It's the old problem of judging the difference between the 'ing' form and the infinitive. In your sentence I very much incline towards
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being perfectly right to do s.th
simply because it is more specific and that's very often what the infinitive points to as in: I like to swim in warm seas and I like swimming. If you use your construction with the 'ing' form I would suggest: You're perfectly right in doing that.

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Correct use of being perfectly right... Sun Jun 03, 2007 23:15 pm  Correct use of being perfectly right...
 

Hi Alan!

A big thanks to you in twofold sense.

This question come up to my mind when I repeatedly read about the mistake of mentioning : Looking forward to see ........

I wonder whether looking forward to seeing ....... is the correct expression. I mean looking is surely the short form of I am looking. But how about seeing in this sentence. Does seeing discribe the act of seeing and is it possible to omit the the subject and auxilary twice in a clause?

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Correct use of being perfectly right... Sun Jun 03, 2007 23:33 pm  Correct use of being perfectly right...
 

Hi Michael,

The correct form is 'look forward to seeing' or 'looking forward to seeing' The omission of the subject I am/we are is all right when spoken and also when written in an informal way. It's the sort of expression used at the end of a letter to a friend/relative to indicate how you much you anticipate seeing someone again.

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