{"id":71974,"date":"2019-09-11T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71974"},"modified":"2019-09-11T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T06:44:09","slug":"look-forward-to-vs-looking-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/look-forward-to-vs-looking-forward-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Forward To vs. Looking Forward To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is little difference between <strong><em>I look forward to and I am looking forward to<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I look forward to the day when he comes back. OR I am looking forward to the day when he comes back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Look forward means \u2018think about a future event with pleasure\u2019. We look forward to something that is certain to happen, and that we are glad about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I<strong> look forward to<\/strong> the holidays. OR I <strong>am looking forward to<\/strong> the holidays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Look forward to<\/strong> can be followed by an \u2013ing form, but not by an infinitive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I <strong>look forward to hearing<\/strong> from you. OR I<strong> am looking forward to hearing<\/strong> from you. (NOT I look forward to hear from you.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is little difference between I look forward to and I am looking forward to. I look forward to the day when he comes back. OR I am looking forward to the day when&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1103,1104,1101,1102],"class_list":["post-71974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-difference-between-look-forward-to-and-looking-forward-to","tag-ing-form-after-look-forward-to","tag-look-forward-to","tag-looking-forward-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71975,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71974\/revisions\/71975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}