List of verbs()

INFINITIVE

1. Infinitive with to
   1.  to express a purpose
      • I put my hand up to go to the toilet
   2. after certain verbs
      1. I told her to visit me
      2. I persuaded her to visit me
      3. She warned him not to go there
   3. after the object of certain verbs
   4. after the auxiliary vers be and have
      1. Jordi Pujol is to open the new EOI in Tarragona
      2. Does my neighbour have to make so much noise while I’m trying to write this?
         
   5. After adjectives
      1. It’s so nice to be in John’s class.
   6. After too + adjective and adjective +enough
      1. English classes are to excitin to miss
      2. I’m fed up enoug not to care
   7. as the subject of the sentence
      1. To write to or -ing, that is the question
2. Infinitive without to
   1. after modal verbs (except “ought to”)
      1. We should do more grammar in class
   2. after the objects of certain verbs
      1. make, let, help (sometimes)
         1. Now, let me tell you a story
         2. Make them do more homework
      2. hear, see, fell, notice, watch (with infinitive if the action is complete; if not, with -ing form)
         1. I saw him fall (but I saw him playing football in the street – and in passive: He was seen to fall)
            
   3. after would rather, had better, and why not…?
      1. I’d better go now

ING form

1. The -ing form as nouns: can be used with articles, possessive adjectives, other determiners…as this, that, some, any, much, little, more, less, all, etc
   
   1. The voting went without any seriuos incidents
   2. His singing is awful
   3. The opening of the EOI…: when used with an article, an -ing noun doesn’t normally take a direct object
2. Verb +-ing form
   1. I adore living there
   2. I look forward to meeting her
   3. He succeeded in finding a job
   4. We insist on paying
      
3. Other expressions + -ing form
   1. I can’t stand listening to their music all night
      
4. Possessive + -ing form
   1. I hope you won’t ind my interrupting
   2. I’m annoyed about John’s forgettint to explain
      1. • I hope you won’t mind me interrupting
         • I’m ennoyed about John forgetting to explain
      • but it is more usual:

-ING  form or infinitive, that is the question: the list

1. Verbs followed by -ing form
2. Verbs followed by a to-infinitive
3. Verbs which take an object followed by a to-infinitive
4. Verbs followed by -ing forms or to-infinitive