What is the difference between these sentences:
Schools should start to use the computers; Schools should start using the computers.
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I read the question that this question is supposed to be a duplicate and I couldn't find any difference explained there better than the syntactical one. In my opinion, this is a good question, and if it's a duplicate, it should be a duplicate of some other question, not that one. – Damkerng T. Jul 02 '14 at 13:30
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@DamkerngT. Maybe if the question is edited to focus on the usage of the two forms. At present it's broad enough that the answer to the other question also answers this. – starsplusplus Jul 04 '14 at 23:46
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@starsplusplus I humbly beg to differ. For one thing, we recently welcomes other similar questions (such as this and this) well enough. For another, I believe that if it's a duplicate, it should be a duplicate of some other question that the answers there should discuss the difference more specifically to "start to verb" vs. "start verb-ing". It's a bit broad, but not too broad for our site, I believe. – Damkerng T. Jul 05 '14 at 03:48
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Being someone who maintains such as opinion, I took an opportunity to do a little searching. Here are a couple of questions I think better than the suggested one: http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/15378/should-we-always-use-verb-ing-structure-after-the-verb-start, http://ell.stackexchange.com/q/11057/3281. – Damkerng T. Jul 05 '14 at 03:49