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It’s beginning to drizzle.

b) with the verbs to understand and to see (meaning to understand).

He began to understand how it was performed.

c) when the subject denotes a thing, not a living being [Кобрина, Корнеева, 2009].

The doors began to creak.

The clock began to strike.

III. Object а) After the verbs remember, forget, regret and the phrase be sorry there is temporal difference – the non-perfect Gerund denotes а prior action, while the Infinitive denotes an action that follows [Шрамко, Степанова, 2009].