looking forward to finding
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:30 pm
Learning the language I came across these sentences
I hope to meet someone with the same interest to go to discos and clubs with.
I am looking forward to finding someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner.
Why not
I am looking forward to find someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner. or
I look forward to finding someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner.
These two I proposed are different in their meanings for me.
Furthermore I have a doubt about is it correct to use the word find with its the present participle form like verb due to the fact that the form finding is also a noun.
finding ~ a piece of information that is discovered during an official examination of a problem, situation or object:
The report's finding on the decrease in violent crime supports the police chief's claims.(from a dictionary)
Please someone tell his opinion or explain why "looking forward" together with "to finding".
Does it mean that his intention is to go on every day further and further with his looking for a new and better partner or what?
Thanks a lot
I hope to meet someone with the same interest to go to discos and clubs with.
I am looking forward to finding someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner.
Why not
I am looking forward to find someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner. or
I look forward to finding someone who will be a good friend and dancing partner.
These two I proposed are different in their meanings for me.
Furthermore I have a doubt about is it correct to use the word find with its the present participle form like verb due to the fact that the form finding is also a noun.
finding ~ a piece of information that is discovered during an official examination of a problem, situation or object:
The report's finding on the decrease in violent crime supports the police chief's claims.(from a dictionary)
Please someone tell his opinion or explain why "looking forward" together with "to finding".
Does it mean that his intention is to go on every day further and further with his looking for a new and better partner or what?
Thanks a lot