关于begin doing和begin to do 的用法

风静静

OG 第三题

3. Although various eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American poets had professed an interest in Native American poetry and had pretended to imitate Native American forms in their own works, until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study traditional Native American poetry in native languages.

(A) until almost 1900, scholars and critics did not begin seriously to study

(B) until almost 1900 scholars and critics had not begun seriously studying

(C) not until almost 1900 were scholars and critics to begin seriously to study

(D) it was not almost until 1900 when scholars and critics began to seriously study

(E) it was not until almost 1900 that scholars and critics seriously began studying

这里我一直不明白begin doing 与begin to do 的区别，求助NN
在CD上搜过关于这个的帖子，可是不知道为什么，关于begin的帖子，都出现错误，不能打开，好奇怪啊~~

风静静

自己顶一顶~~~

naryi

这个我知道，begin to do和begin doing的意思是完全一样的，只是只用的频率不同而已。begin doing在日常英语中的频率超过了40%，而begin to do只有不到10%。在《朗文当代高级词典》上有很多关于这样类似短语的频率的统计，我觉得帮助挺大的。

区别不大
有三种情况begin 和start 后用to do 较好
1。主语为物。如：
it began to rain
2、后面的动词为心理活动的词
He began to realize/know/think ...
3、本身用进行时的时候
they are beginning to talk about it.
Ok?

cici简溪

多谢！