Una pregunta sobre el verbo comenzar

Question

Estoy comenzando comiendo mis enchiladas es similar a decir estoy comenzando a comer mis enchiladas? Puede quitarse la preposición a en este contexto?

Answer 1

Verbs of motion usually have the preposition "a" attached to them.

Comenzar, to me, is a verb of motion. So I say go with: Estoy comenzando a comer .....

Answer 2

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/comenzar

transitive verb

1. to start, to begin

• comenzar diciendo que… to start o begin by saying that…

intransitive verb

1. to start, to begin

• comenzar a hacer algo to start doing o to do something

• comenzar por hacer algo to begin by doing something

So there is a difference between starting doing something and starting by doing something.

I started eating my enchiladas I started by eating my enchiladas

That being said the first sentence doesn't sound like something I have heard before (two gerundios in a row), so I will have to defer to native speakers or more advanced learners as to whether it is something that they would naturally say.

I can only answer that the a is not used when you follow comenzar with the gerundio but is when it is followed by an infinitive-and there is a difference in meaning between the two ways of doing it.

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