Why do we call the painting “painting” when it’s already done?
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It’s an interesting aspect of British Vs. American English, I’m not going to try and get the part of speech right, but you can take a noun from a verb by adding -ing and it’s more common in British English than American.
For example, we might say Painting, Drawing, or Building in American English, ok. But British English also adds words like “washing” for laundry and “shopping” for stuff you bought at the grocery store.
It’s just a way of naming the *thing* you get as the result of a verb.
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