The present participle in certain phrases
I’m busy refurnishing my room, don’t call me this weekend.
It’s no use crying over spilt milk.
It’s no good calling him, he’s abroad.
I had trouble starting my car this morning.
I had a hard time understanding what he was saying.
Geoffrey spent the whole weekend working in the garden.
I don’t want to feel that I wasted my youth being good and responsible when I should have been bad and rebellious.
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