Intending vs intent

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Intending vs intent

by norizam » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:03 pm
Any political figure who is intending on running for president will not succeed without a large quantity of campaign money...
A.
B. Who has the intention of running
C. who is intent to run
D. Intending on running
E. Intent on running

Both " intend to" and "intend on" are correct idioms. We can eliminate A, B and C for concision. However, I cant differentiate between intending and intent..WhaT is the difference?
Any political figure intending on running
Any political figure intent on running


As per Stacey: The cat circling the mouse...is correct
Could it be that -ing on -ing construction is not preferred?

If so, then is the following correct?
Any political figure intending to run
And would this one be incorrect?
Any political figure intent to run

I googled the net but can't find anything that clarifies the difference. And what is the difference between intent and intention? Any help is much appreciated
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by grockit_andrea » Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:50 pm
I don't know of any firm rule on this, but I can tell you what "sounds right" to me, which probably means that it's an idiomatic usage: "intent on running" is fine, as is "intending to run," but "intent to run" and "intending on running" are not. Again, I don't have a rule to direct you to that backs this up, but I think it's gerund + infinitive, or intent + on.
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by ayushiiitm » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:08 pm
norizam wrote:Any political figure who is intending on running for president will not succeed without a large quantity of campaign money...
A.
B. Who has the intention of running
C. who is intent to run
D. Intending on running
E. Intent on running

Both " intend to" and "intend on" are correct idioms. We can eliminate A, B and C for concision. However, I cant differentiate between intending and intent..WhaT is the difference?
Any political figure intending on running
Any political figure intent on running
The correct idiom are intend to and intent on
intend on is not correct

on the same basis imo E

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by sumanr84 » Thu Jul 01, 2010 8:52 pm
Looks E to me.

D. Intending on running - Looks real bad..
I am on a break !!

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by norizam » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:55 pm
source is not kaplan...sorry about that!

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by Pdgmat2010 » Sat Aug 21, 2010 11:26 pm
i think its E
pls can someone post the OA?

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by ankurmit » Mon Aug 23, 2010 1:43 am
Confused.

Please post OA
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by shibal » Mon Aug 23, 2010 4:30 pm
intend on IMO is not correct....
given the options i'd go with B...... OA?

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:29 pm
i heard " intent on verb+ing" never intenting on verb+ing

so imo E
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