ing English

Meaning ing meaning

What does ing mean?

ing noun

— (now, only in, _, dialects) A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.

ing noun

— The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

Topics ing topics

What do people use ing to talk about?

Grammar General words Do

Event propositions

• What words indicate an event?
  -ing -'s...-ing -ing...of to

States Time Relative time Before

At the same time

• What words indicate that something happens at the same time as something else?
  at the same time as meanwhile while as -ing simultaneity concurrently coincident

Grammar Part of speech

Affixes

• What affixes are in your language?
  -s -ed -ing

Grammar Part of speech Affixes

Verb affixes

• What affixes can be joined to verbs?
  -ing -ed -s

Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Tense and aspect

Relational tenses

• anterior continuing: past action continues into the present: 'I have waited over an hour' ( = and I'm still waiting).
  have been... -ing

Examples ing examples

How do I use ing in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Yeah. DJ'ing is so much easier than I thought.

Catherine - You have falled to provide a male her to the throne. Declare yourself WIII Ing to divorce so that I may marry again.

I do declare, it looks like my head's gonna split open with all this singing and yelling and hallelujah-ing.

I see you'e still weaing the lovely ganet ing that Gandma Bewste bought in England.

You can take you honeymoon, wedding ing, taxi, windowseat put them in a bael, and push them all ove Niagaa Falls!

You'd bette ing in.

You ing in and I'll meet you at Kelly's.

Look, you ing in and I'll see you late.

Why didn't you ing in?

THE U-BOAT'S COM ING. WE HAVE TO GET THE ENGINES STARTED.

WHATEVER IT IS, I WANT IT TO KEEP COM ING.

What are you a.. ing?

And there'll be two frozen statutes try ing to make their peace in a frozen eternity.

Poor girl, your tornado-ing days are over.

She's OD'ing!

We have an OD'ing female.

THE U-BOAT'S COM ING.

LOUSY SWIMM ING, MR. PENELL, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE ALMOST OUT OF BLOOD.

IT'S COM ING, BOY, IT'S REALLY COM ING. AND A BIG ONE, TOO.

IT'S COM ING.

IT'S COM ING PROBABLY WITHIN 48 HOURS.

WE AREN'T EVER COM ING BACK HERE AGAIN.

Ing, Ing, Ing?

In that case, let's stop DICK-ing around with this ri-DICK-ulous nonsense.

All this mister-ing makes me nervous.

They could be DF-ing us if you have the transmitter hidden somewhere on your clothes?

Cesaretto, do you ever mind your f.ing business?

Yes, sir ing, I am, I got the message.

With the first act, gives Quiller ing all the actions of his wife, Mrs. Petula!

Ing, no climbing today.

She's O.D.ing!

The day I bring an O.D.ing bitch to your house, then I give her the shot.

I just don't have a lot of chef-ing experience.

I thought you were BS-ing me.

Ing-land?

Just play the f-ing note!

No, not the f-ing first one!

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