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Bookmark or Share- Take an approach to "do something /doing something" - WordReference ForumsHello everybody, I wondered what the difference between **Take an approach to "do sth/doing sth"** is as I came across this sentence in an academic textbook, Here it is : "Because of the links between the Type A behavior pattern and heart disease, various approaches have been taken to...
- combating / combatting | WordReference ForumsIt's most definitely combating in AmE and combatting in BrE. As mentioned before by several users, there's the usually very useful 'SOS'-rule (which says that a word that ends in 'consonant, vowel, consonant' sees its last consonant doubled when forming a past participle or a continuous tense).
- combatting or combating | WordReference ForumsThis means that in UK (Standard) English the spelling 'combating' is correct, as per the OED (which I use as the standard, because it's the nearest thing English has to a standard). Individual speakers may have their way with those three syllables, but there is a rationale for the single t.
- Pronunciation "combating" - WordReference Forumscombating is the AE spelling combatting is the BE spelling They are both pronounced the same: "kom bat ing"
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