devoting
- 1Present participle and gerund of devote.
The company is devoting significant resources to clean energy research.
By devoting his weekends to the shelter, he found a new sense of purpose.
Note
The -ing form does double duty. After be it builds the progressive (is devoting resources), and on its own it heads a gerund phrase (by devoting his weekends). Either way it usually takes an object plus a to-phrase naming the cause. That to is a preposition, so a following verb takes -ing as well: devoting time to helping others, not devoting time to help others. The final e of devote drops before -ing.
devoting is a form of devote
devote, verb: To give your time, effort, or attention entirely to a particular cause, person, or purpose. Full entry
- Spelling
- devote → devoting: drop the e, add -ing
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