INFINITIVE
- Infinitive with to
- to express a purpose
- I put my hand up to go to the toilet
- after certain verbs
- I told her to visit me
- I persuaded her to visit me
- She warned him not to go there
- after the object of certain verbs
- after the auxiliary vers be and have
- Jordi Pujol is to open the new EOI in Tarragona
- Does my neighbour have to make so much noise while I’m trying to write this?
- After adjectives
- It’s so nice to be in John’s class.
- After too + adjective and adjective +enough
- English classes are to excitin to miss
- I’m fed up enoug not to care
- as the subject of the sentence
- To write to or -ing, that is the question
- to express a purpose
- Infinitive without to
- after modal verbs (except “ought to”)
- We should do more grammar in class
- after the objects of certain verbs
- make, let, help (sometimes)
- Now, let me tell you a story
- Make them do more homework
- hear, see, fell, notice, watch (with infinitive if the action is complete; if not, with -ing form)
- I saw him fall (but I saw him playing football in the street – and in passive: He was seen to fall)
- I saw him fall (but I saw him playing football in the street – and in passive: He was seen to fall)
- make, let, help (sometimes)
- after would rather, had better, and why not…?
- I’d better go now
- after modal verbs (except “ought to”)
ING form
- 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
- The voting went without any seriuos incidents
- His singing is awful
- The opening of the EOI…: when used with an article, an -ing noun doesn’t normally take a direct object
- Verb +-ing form
- I adore living there
- I look forward to meeting her
- He succeeded in finding a job
- We insist on paying
- Other expressions + -ing form
- I can’t stand listening to their music all night
- I can’t stand listening to their music all night
- Possessive + -ing form
- I hope you won’t ind my interrupting
- I’m annoyed about John’s forgettint to explain
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- I hope you won’t mind me interrupting
- I’m ennoyed about John forgetting to explain
- but it is more usual:
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-ING form or infinitive, that is the question: the list
- Verbs followed by -ing form
- Verbs followed by a to-infinitive
- Verbs which take an object followed by a to-infinitive
- Verbs followed by -ing forms or to-infinitive