starting raining/to rain

[e174043]

It's starting to rain
It's starting raining. (It's wrong according to my book.)

"Start" takes both "gerund" and "infinitive" but I've seen something in my grammer book and it says "We cannot use "Ving form" after the continiouse tense."
What about you natives?
Do you use the second sentence normally?

Thanks in advance

 

[sound shift]

No, I use the first sentence but not the second.

 

[e174043]

Thank you. Is it about only "start" and "begin" or all verbs like this do not take "Ving" after the main verb if it's the continious tense?

Thanks in advance

 

[Loob]

I don't think there's a hard and fast rule here, e174043: I can imagine situations in which "I'm starting verbing" would sound perfectly natural.

I do think, though, that when we have a choice, as we do with "begin" and "start", we would normally opt for an infinitive after a continuous tense. Other verbs that spring to mind are "intend" and "continue".

 

[MilkyBarKid]

'It's raining" : Present Continues indicates that the rain started prior to NOW, the moment of speaking; continues as an event, but has a foreseeable END = "It's stopped raining."

So, if it's already started, how can you say, at the same moment NOW, that it is starting raining ???

'start' : begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space.

Language is such fun!

 

[e174043]

I don't know MilkyBarKid how I can say "it is starting raining".
I just saw in a text.
I mean I didn't say.
Yet, I think we can say "it's starting raining" at the begining of the raining.
If you're with your friends at out and it's just started raining,
Can you say "It's starting to rain, let's go to a café." ?

 

[rm321]

It makes sense, I think the reason we would choose to say "it's starting to rain" instead is that it sounds nicer, the repetition of -ing in "starting raining" sounds a bit silly to me.

 

[e174043]

I'd already understood. It was fun "I didn't say" . I just wanted to ask " Do you say "It's starting to rain" I mean whether you use the present prograssive in this situation or not.
By the way, Thank you rm321. I got what you didn't use.

Thanks in Advance