Re: -ing vs -ed verb forms
Based on the discussion, I need to reduce my use of -ing. As Janet Reid has said, I think there's a place for them. Variety, spice of life, etc.
*gets ready to duck*
Thanks to all.
Dirk
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Re: -ing vs -ed verb forms
Norm d'Plume wrote:
Based on the discussion, I need to reduce my use of -ing. As Janet Reid has said, I think there's a place for them. Variety, spice of life, etc.
*gets ready to duck*
Thanks to all.
Dirk
In a sense, and with irony, I believe I am the one arguing for the tastes of the commoner, for minimizing -ing words is one of those test-marketed issues of style a reader might not be able to identify as better than otherwise, but once a sentence is fixed, that reader picks the fixed version. I am perplexed that not a single TNBW author to whom I have broached the topic, and in particular the sub-issue of the ugly dangling participial phrase, has reacted positively, and I believe I had one review deleted, and I was blocked, though certainly I can pause to consider that it might have been my manner of broaching the subject, but, as I said, I thought it would have been a common enough style issue to be more widely accepted on TNBW and authors not so easily offended.
