(1) A house began coming into view through a pine forest.
(2) A house began to come into view through a pine forest.
Question: Are both sentences correct? If so, is there any difference in meaning or connotation between them?
begin coming/to come into view
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Re: begin coming/to come into view
Although technically grammatical, (a) is unidiomatic.