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'stopped to cry' vs 'stopped crying'

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#1 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 4:48 am 'stopped to cry' vs 'stopped crying'

Thank mister your respond very quickly I got it

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#2 (permalink) Mon Mar 16, 2009 14:29 pm 'stopped to cry' vs 'stopped crying'

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'stopped to cry' vs 'stopped crying'

I stopped whatever I wad doing before, (in order) to cry.
I stopped crying and started doing something else.
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#3 (permalink) Mon Mar 16, 2009 15:01 pm 'stopped to cry' vs 'stopped crying'

Hi, I think we need to straighten this out - 'I stopped whatever I was doing before crying/ in order to cry'. Alan _________________ English as a Second Language You can read my ESL story Present Simple

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