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"I once belonged to a critique group where one participant kept marking -ing words for deletion, even gerunds. Her reasoning was that all -ing words are passive construction. I tried to show her differently, but my words fell on deaf ears. For instance, is it more active to say \"I run\" or to say \"I am running\"? \"I run\" means I engage in that behavior from time to time. \"I am running\" means I'm actively running at the moment. And to say \"Running is exhausting\" uses two -ing words, one at the beginning, but it's a perfectly fine sentence, in its place. Dealing with these kinds of \"rules\" are exhausting me!"
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