Difference between Digging and Dig

What is the difference between Digging and Dig?

Digging as a noun is the action performed by a person or thing that digs. while Dig as a noun is an archeological investigation

Digging

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The action performed by a person or thing that digs.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.

Example sentence: Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

Dig

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An archeological investigationSee digs

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill etc. through rocks, roads, etc.To research a particular subject.To appreciate, or like.To understand or show interest in.

Example sentence: Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

We hope you now know whether to use Digging or Dig in your sentence.

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