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You can use either. However, you have a grammatical error in your first example, and they mean different things. I'm sorry for being ... EnglishLanguage&UsageStackExchangeisaquestionandanswersiteforlinguists,etymologists,andseriousEnglishlanguageenthusiasts.Itonlytakesaminutetosignup. Signuptojointhiscommunity Anybodycanaskaquestion Anybodycananswer Thebestanswersarevotedupandrisetothetop Home Public Questions Tags Users Unanswered Teams StackOverflowforTeams –Collaborateandshareknowledgewithaprivategroup. CreateafreeTeam WhatisTeams? Teams CreatefreeTeam Teams Q&Aforwork Connectandshareknowledgewithinasinglelocationthatisstructuredandeasytosearch. Learnmore Fordisturbingorfordisturbance AskQuestion Asked 3years,6monthsago Active 3years,5monthsago Viewed 46ktimes 3 Whichoneiscorrecttosay: I'msorryfordisturbing. I'msorryforthedisturbance",andwhy? Isitmandatorytousegerundafterprepositionsorwecanuseitinitsoriginalnounform? Thankyouinadvance. nounsgerunds Share Improvethisquestion Follow editedJun28'18at10:53 Ahmed 4,62588goldbadges4141silverbadges7979bronzebadges askedJun28'18at9:45 AhmedAhmed 3111goldbadge11silverbadge22bronzebadges 1 1 Thisseemslikeit'dbemoresuitedtotheEnglishLanguageLeanerssite. – HackSaw Jun28'18at12:56 Addacomment  |  2Answers 2 Active Oldest Votes 3 Youcanuseeither.However,youhaveagrammaticalerrorinyourfirstexample,andtheymeandifferentthings. I'msorryforbeingdisturbing. I'msorryfordisturbingyou. Thiscorrectsthegrammarissue.Youcan'tjustsaydisturbingonitsown. Inthissentence,youareapologizingforbeingthecauseofadisturbance. I'msorryforthedisturbance. Here,youareapologizingforadisturbanceingeneral,onewhichyoumayormaynothavecaused.Forinstance,youcouldbeapologizingfortheloudnoiseofatrainthathaspassedbyyourhousewhereyoulive. Share Improvethisanswer Follow answeredJun28'18at17:24 JasonBassfordJasonBassford 37.2k55goldbadges4949silverbadges8888bronzebadges Addacomment  |  -1 Youcoulduseeitherreally, Iamsorryifyoufoundxdisturbingforyreason. Iamsorryifxcausedyouadisturbance. Share Improvethisanswer Follow editedJun15'20at7:40 CommunityBot 1 answeredJun28'18at15:26 JoshuaSimonBloomJoshuaSimonBloom 19166bronzebadges Addacomment  |  YourAnswer ThanksforcontributingananswertoEnglishLanguage&UsageStackExchange!Pleasebesuretoanswerthequestion.Providedetailsandshareyourresearch!Butavoid…Askingforhelp,clarification,orrespondingtootheranswers.Makingstatementsbasedonopinion;backthemupwithreferencesorpersonalexperience.Tolearnmore,seeourtipsonwritinggreatanswers. Draftsaved Draftdiscarded Signuporlogin SignupusingGoogle SignupusingFacebook SignupusingEmailandPassword Submit Postasaguest Name Email Required,butnevershown PostYourAnswer Discard Byclicking“PostYourAnswer”,youagreetoourtermsofservice,privacypolicyandcookiepolicy Nottheansweryou'relookingfor?Browseotherquestionstaggednounsgerundsoraskyourownquestion. FeaturedonMeta We’vemadechangestoourTermsofService&PrivacyPolicy-January2022 Newpostsummarydesignsongreatesthitsnow,everywhereelseeventually Related 1 Whyisitthat"Icalledforconfirmationthat..."but"thankyouforconfirmingthat..."? 2 Whatisanounfor"onewhoisadroit"? 1 Whentouseagerundoraninfinitiveafter"is"? 0 DoesGerundactasnounalways? 0 Noun+to+gerund HotNetworkQuestions sitemap.xmlnotrenderedasXMLdocumentinbrowser WhyisthisaG7b9? Articlespublishedwithouttheirauthorsbeingaware OptimizationSolutionFramework Does我也不知道怎么冒犯他了mean"Ialsodon'tknowhowtooffendhim"and/or"Ialsodon'tknowhowIoffendedhim"? Encouragingquestionsduringlecturesyethandlingparticularstudentaskingtoomanyquestions Firefox:notifymebeforeupdate Howcanweexplainthe"badreputation"ofhigher-orderpolynomials? Whydoesn'tthevoltmetershowthechargingvoltagewhenconnectedtoasolarcontroller'sbatteryconnection? Whytonotcreateawarriorspeciesifyoucan? Howcananaddressrefertothe"USA"ifnocountriesexistinStarTrek? UnabletoremovemarkerclustergroupcompletelyfromthemapinLeaflet CanIreviseapartofthepaperthatthereviewerdidnotmention? CreatingarasterfromscratchinQGIS WhatEthernettwistedpaircableisbestwithaparticularEthernetswitch Howtoreducetheheightofamulticolumncell? NovelResearch:BestwaytosabotageaHawkerHurricanein1940/41? Howdoesafloppydriveidentifythefirstandlastsectorsandtracks? WhatisthesecondsaveAberforthdidtoHarry'steam? Blenderstepsingeometrynodes? Canyoubemadeacitizenagainstyourwillandextradited? l-------l.com,aweirdwebpagefrom2000 CanIfryfoodwithsolelyessentiallemonoil? Whytopfailstorunviaxargs? morehotquestions Questionfeed SubscribetoRSS Questionfeed TosubscribetothisRSSfeed,copyandpastethisURLintoyourRSSreader. Yourprivacy Byclicking“Acceptallcookies”,youagreeStackExchangecanstorecookiesonyourdeviceanddiscloseinformationinaccordancewithourCookiePolicy. Acceptallcookies Customizesettings