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Why we say "I am doing the shopping"?
Why we say "I am doing the shopping"? why not "I am doing shopping" like "I am going shopping"?
Oct 18, 2018 8:50 AM
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"Shopping" is a noun here, not a verb. It's the name of a regular domestic task, meaning that you need to go and buy some household basics : bread, milk, toilet paper, and so on. Grammatically, it's the same as "doing the laundry" : do + the + name of chore.
This is different from "go shopping", which might also be a recreational or social activity, such as looking round fashion shops.
Note that the 'ing' form can have many grammatical functions:
I am shopping = present participle
I like shopping = gerund
I do the shopping = (verbal) noun
October 18, 2018
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farid sadeghi
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English, Persian (Farsi)
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