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How to distinguish between 'compare A with B' and 'compare A to B'? | the meaning of 'what's the story?'
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gerund or infinitive #1 (permalink) Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:47 am   gerund or infinitive		  
Which is correct:
1-Read books was what I did.
2-To read books was what I did.
3-Reading books was what I wanted to do.
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gerund or infinitive #2 (permalink) Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:24 am   gerund or infinitive		  
Good morning
I think that we say :
Reading books was what I did ( if you really read books which mean that you did the action of reading in the past)
Reading books was what I wanted to do ( If you wanted to read of caurse in the past )
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