will be looking forward to meeting you

   Share on Facebook  
Believer  #488311  Thu, 13 Mar 08 07:13 AM

Hi,

Which one or ones are right? When do we use each of them?

1. I will be looking forward to meet you.

2. I will be looking forward to meeting you.

3. I am looking forward to meet you.

4. I am looking forward to meeting you.

I think that depends on whether you are looking at 'to' as a preposition or 'to meet' as an infinitive. Are they both correct?

How about this?

I like playing chess.

I like to play chess

For the above, are we looking at the choice of looking 'to play' as an infinitive acting as a part of a noun and 'playing chess' as a noun phrase?  

  
Top 50 Contributor
Joined on Mon, Jan 2 2006
Contributing Member (1,966)
nona the brit  #488355  Thu, 13 Mar 08 09:35 AM

. I will be looking forward to meet you. incorrect

2. I will be looking forward to meeting you. grammatically ok but it suggest that right now you are not looking forward to meeting them. You won't start looking forward to it until some time in the future. Rather odd.

3. I am looking forward to meet you. incorrect

4. I am looking forward to meeting you. correct and a standard phrase.

  
Top 10 Contributor
Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004
England
Veteran Member (11,209)
ModeratorProficient Speaker
The name says it all.
Yoong Liat  #488372  Thu, 13 Mar 08 10:04 AM

I look forward to meeting you is commonly used.

  
Top 25 Contributor
Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006
Singapore
Veteran Member (5,609)
Yoong Liat
AddThis Feed Button RSS Feed: ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help
© 2008 MediaCET Ltd.
Terms and Conditions