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novrgn  #490007  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:14 PM

"Sometimes waiting also seems to be waiting."

                            or

"Sometimes waiting also seems to do waiting."

                          or

"Sometimes waiting also seems to wait."

                                  ...........................please explain th reason.

  
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Grammar Geek  #490008  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:20 PM

I'm sorry, but none of these makes any sense. Can you try to ask your question in a different way?

  
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novrgn  #490015  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:37 PM

ya Grammar Geek..actually i mean to say that when we wait for something for a long time and it does not happen then we feel that waiting process is also waiting for something to happen..this thing i want to confine in a single quote.

  
Grammar Geek  #490018  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:43 PM

Sorry, but when you wait, you ARE waiting for something to happen. You want to say that that activity of waiting takes on a life of its own?

  
novrgn  #490021  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:45 PM

ya exactly..what would be the correct construction for that?

  
Grammar Geek  #490022  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:51 PM

When waiting a long time, the wait itself becomes its own activity, not just the means to an end... something like that? I'm still not 100% clear on what you want this to say. My suggestion here has a dangling modifier, so it's not right yet.

  
novrgn  #490024  Mon, 17 Mar 08 07:56 PM

actually sir i mean to say that when we wait for very long time for something then this waiting appears as an activity which is also waiting to be completed but never ends.

  
novrgn  #490025  Mon, 17 Mar 08 08:00 PM

You please tell me the possible construction according to you and also please try to incorporate the word "seem" in your sentence.

  
Grammar Geek  #490029  Mon, 17 Mar 08 08:22 PM

Perhaps one of our other friends from the site can help you. I'm still struggling to understand how waiting can seem like waiting, when it IS waiting.

If you said "My job is so much fun that work seems like play" or "When you love your job, working seems like playing," I could understand, but waiting for something to happen is simply waiting for something to happen, so I am obviously missing your point.

  
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