Transcript Gerunds & infinitives

Gerunds & infinitives
Gerunds
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As the subject
Playing tennis is good exercise.
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After prepositions
She’s interested in taking a drama course
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After certain verbs and expressions
Verbs + ing
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Admit
Appreciate
Avoid
Be used to
Can’t help
Can’t stand
Consider
Delay
Deny
discuss
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Dislike
End up
Enjoy
Fancy
Feel like
Finish
Forget
Get used to
Go
Imagine
Verb +ing
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It’s no use/good
It’s worth
Keep
Look forward to
Mention
Mind
Miss
Postpone
Practise
Recall
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Recommend
Resent
Resist
Risk
Spend time
Stop
Suggest
Tolerate
understand
Infinitives after the following verbs &
expressions
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Afford
Agree
Appear
Arrange
Ask
Care
Claim
Decide
Demand
Deserve
Expect
Fail
Forget
Have a chance
Hesitate
Learn
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Manage
Mean
Need
Offer
Plan
Prepare
Pretend
Promise
Refuse
Seem
Struggle
Swear
Threaten
Volunteer
Wait
Want
Wish
Would like
Verb+object+infinitive
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Advise
Allow
Ask
Beg
Cause
Challenge
Convince
Dare
Enable
Encourage
Expect
Forbid
Force
hire
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Instruct
Invite
Need
Order
Permit
Persuade
Remind
Require
Teach
Tell
Urge
Want
Warn
Adjectives + infinitive
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Afraid
Anxious
Certain
Difficult
easy
Happy
Likely
Lucky
pleased
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Right
Shocked
Surprised
Welcome
willing
Wrong
Infinitives after superlatives &
the first/second/last.
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She’s the youngest woman ever to win
that contest.
As usual, John was the first to know.
Gerund or infinitive without a
change in meaning.
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Begin
Can’t bear
Continue
Hate
Intend
I intend to speak to him or I intend speaking to him.
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Love
Prefer
We prefer to drive or we prefer driving
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Start
Gerund or infinitive with a
change in meaning.
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I’ll never forget winning the race. (will always remember)
I forgot to pack my toothbrush. (forget to do something)
I regret telling her my secret. (be sorry about something in the
past)
I regret to tell you that there’s been an accident. (announce bad
news)
I remember meeting Uncle Joe when I was 7. (remember a past
action)
I remembered to phone him on his birthday. (remember to do
something)
I have stopped drinking beer. (stop a habit or an activity)
I stopped to drink some water. (stop in order to do something)
Why don’t you try eating rice with chopsticks? (experiment/try sth
new)
I tried to eat rice with chopsticks but I couldn’t. (make an effort)
Too & enough
let &make
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She’s too young to drive
She’s not old enough to drive
My sister lets me borrow her clothes.
My parents made me change my shirt.
NOTE THE PASSIVE FORM:
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I was made to clean up this mess.