Expect and Look forward to
Incorrect : We were looking forward to a storm.
Correct : We were expecting a storm.
Incorrect: I am expecting to meeting her.
Correct: I am expecting to meet her. Or I am looking forward to meeting her.
Note: If you expect anything (good or bad), you think that it will happen. If you look forward to something, you think that it will happen, and feel happy as a result. "Expect' cannot be followed by any prepositional phrase. In "look forward to', “to' is a preposition and it is followed by a noun, pronoun or gerund.
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