Saturday, 28 November 2020

Common errors in English: Usage of Expect and Look forward to

 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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