Both of these sentences are correct and both of them mean the same thing.

Theyre both great people, but with very different personalities.

Hes super organised and is always thinking about his next move.

She likes doing things and is always interested in the experience of actions and not so much the result.

In the last post about these guys, we looked at how they work after verbs.

But -ing lady and to man are busy people and we dont just meet them simply after verbs.

So when are the other times we use them -ing and to as subject and object A long, long, long time ago (last October) I wrote a post about sentence structure.

In short, I identified the four main parts of the sentence: the subject, verb, object and the extra information.

I colour coded them to show the sentence structure more clearly, which resulted in this beauty: The last post about -ing lady and to man showed you how they work with verbs.

But they are so busy that they can appear in either subject, object or extra information.

Heres a question for you: Why does Hamlet say, To be, or not to be and not, Being or not being That is the question.

One reason why Hamlet is such a popular play is that we can see Hamlet slowly going mad throughout the play.

Remember that to man is not interested in experiences He prefers results and usually looks at actions in a more philosophical way.

So one of the reasons Shakespeare decided that Hamlet should say to be and not being is that to be shows more detachment.

When deciding whether to be or not to be, Hamlet is trying to make a decision (to kill himself or not).

And planning for the future is exactly what to man likes to do.

Heres another question: Which of these sentences sound more natural: Swimming is difficult.

Remember that -ing lady is all about experience and to man is more objective and scientific.

So, heres how each of them would think about these sentences: Look at these pictures.

Generally speaking, we usually use -ing as the subject if we want to sound natural.

We can also use actions, either -ing actions or to actions, as objects in a sentence.

And like with subjects, the -ing choice is usually more natural.

But we always have a choice, and sometimes we want to express different things.

Look at these two lists: This clearly makes sense, right -ing lady is feeling the experience of her duties while to man is pushing to the future with his goals.

But what do we do when its unclear which one to use The most dangerous part of my job is feeding the giraffe.

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