-ing forms / to+infinitive / : list of verbs

Both structures

• Little difference in meaning
• The difficult ones
  

• Admit -ing
• Adore -ing
  • I adore living here
• Advise (object) + to-infin.
  • I advise you to go to the Salzburg music festival
• Afford + to-infin.
  • If you can’t affford to eat in expensive restaurants, Vancouver has lots of cheaper ones.
• Agree + to-infin.
• Aim + to-infin.
  
• Allow (object) + to-infin.
• Appear + to-infin.
  
• Appreciate -ing
• Arrange + to-infin.
• Ask + to-infin.
• Attempt
  • + to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Avoid -ing
  • You can avoid offending people by learning the host country’s customs
• Bear (can’t bear) -ing
• Beg + to-infin.
• Begin 
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Bother 
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Care + to-infin.
• Cease 
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Celebrate -ing
• Choose + to-infin.
  
• Come
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
• Commence -ing
• Consent + to-infin.
• Consider -ing
• Contemplate -ing
• Continue
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Dare + to-infin.
• Decide + to-infin.
  
• Delay -ing
• Demand + to-infin.
  
• Deny -ing
• Deserve
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
    
• Detest -ing
• Dislike -ing
• Dread
  • to-infin.
    
  • -ing
    
• Encourage (object) + to infin.
  • I encourage all foreigners to try some real sushi
• Endure -ing
• Enjoy -ing
• Expect + to-infin.
  
• Face -ing
• Fail + to-infin.
  
• Fancy -ing
  • I don’t fancy living there
• Fear 
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
    
• Fight + to-infin.
• Finish -ing
• Forbid (object) + to infin
• Force (object) + to infin.
• Go
  • to-infin
    
  • -ing
• Happen+ to-infin
• Hate
  • to-infin
  • -ing
• Help
  • (can’t help) -ing
  • Help + to-infin
    
• Hesitate + to-infin.
• Hope + to-infin.
  
• Imagine -ing
  • I can’t imagine living there
• Insist on -ing
  • We insist on paying
• Intend + to-infin
• Involve -ing
• Keep -ing
• Learn + to-infin.
• Lie -ing
• Like
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Loathe -ing
• Long + to-infin.
  
• Look forward to -ing
  • We look forward to seeing you
• Love
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
• Manage + to-infin
  
• Mean
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
    
• Mention -ing
• Mind -ing (Don’t mind -ing)
  • I don’t mind queueing, but it took hours to get into the museum
• Miss -ing
• Neglect + to-infin.
  
• Object to -ing
  • If you object to paying lots of money for clothes, don’t go shopping in Ginza, Tokyo
• Offer + to-infin.
• Order (object)+ to infin.
• Persuade (object) + to infin.
  • She persuaded us to visit Austria in the spring
  • I persuade her to visit me
    
• Plan + to-infin.
• Postpone -ing
• Practise -ing
• Prefer
  • to-infin
  • -ing
    
• Prepare + to-infin
• Pretend + to-infin.
• Promise + to-infin.
• Prove + to-infin.
  
• Recommend -ing
  • I’d recommend going to Tokyo Art Gallery
• Refuse + to-infin.
• Regret
  • to-infin
  • -ing
• Remember
  • to-infin
  • -ing
• Report -ing
• Resent -ing
• Resist -ing
• Risk -ing
• Seem + to-infin.
  
• Sit -ing
  
• Stand -ing (can’t stand)
  • I can’t stand travelling on the Tkyo underground
• Start
  • to-infin.
  • -ing
• Stop
  • to-infin
  • -ing
• Succeed in -ing
  • He succeeded in finding a job
• Suggest -ing
• Swear + to-infin
  
• Tell + object + infin.
  • I told her to come here
• Tend + to-infin.
• Think about -ing
  • I’m thinking about taking a break
• Threaten + to-infin.
  
• Try
  • to-infin
  • -ing
• Urge (object) to+infin.
  • I’d urge you to see Stanley Park in Vancouver
• Volunteer + to-infin.
• Vow + to-infin.
• Wait + to-infin.
  
• Want + to-infin
  • She doesn’t want to miss out on “fusion cuisine”
• Warn (object) + to infin
  • She warned him not to go there
• Wish + to-infin.
  

Other expressions:

• No use / good -ing
• Not worth spending time / money on…