formulating
- 1Present participle of formulate.
The committee is formulating guidelines for the new recycling program.
Researchers are formulating a fresh hypothesis based on the latest data.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs, and both keep the direct object that formulate always takes. After a form of be it is the progressive participle (she is formulating a reply). At the head of a noun phrase it is a gerund (formulating a clear policy takes time), which behaves like a noun but still takes its object. In spelling, the final e of formulate drops before -ing, as in create and creating.
Formulating a clear policy took the board most of the year.
The hardest part of the project was formulating the question itself.
formulating is a form of formulate
formulate, verb: To express an idea, plan, or proposal in a clear and definite form of words. Full entry
- Forms
- formulateformulates he/she/itformulating -ing formformulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- formulate → formulating: drop the e, add -ing
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