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Discover Ludwig"were collecting" is correct and usable in written English.
This form of the verb "to collect" is known as the past participle and it is used to form the passive voice in sentences. For example: The items were collecting by the volunteers.
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They were collecting, not decorating".
Al-Shabaab fighters were collecting dead bodies.
By the 1980s, Middle Easterners were collecting as well.
A group of Haitian apple pickers were collecting their pay.
Church members were collecting donations of clothes, water and toiletries.
"We were collecting bits and pieces and putting limbs together".
"I saw frogs dying as we were collecting them.
Maybe you were collecting that sort of stuff for a while.
"People were collecting vernacular environments back then," she added, "but mostly were pillaging them.
That was the height of Watergate, when people were collecting thousands of dollars in black bags.
Ugenti-Rita told me she was not aware that children and undocumented immigrants were collecting ballots.
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