to be vs. being

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Jun 14th, 2009, 11:26 am

Beatrix

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Re: to be vs. being

I am not a native speaker but I would make a parallel here with other cases where "to verb" refers to a future action, while -ing implies that the action is already in progress

as in : "I stopped to make phone calls"
"I stopped making phone calls"

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