VERB PATTERNS Quand on associe deux verbes, voil ce qu'il se passe gnralement : {verbe} + {to} + {infinitif} ex : I managed to leave.
Sont inclus les verbes: afford, agree, appear, arrange, ask, attempt, be, bear, beg, begin, care, choose, consent, dare, decide, determine, expect, fail, forget, happen, hate, have, help, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, like, love, manage, mean, need, neglect, offer, ought, plan, prefer, prepare, pretend, promise, propose, refuse, regret, remember, seem, start, swear, threaten, trouble, try, used, want, wish. {verbe} + [Complment d'objet] + {to} + {infinitif} ex : I would advise you to go. I want you to leave. Sont inclus les verbes : advise, allow, ask, bear, beg, cause, command, compel, encourage, expect, forbid, force, get, hate, help, instruct, intend, invite, leave, like, mean, need, oblige, order, permit, persuade, prefer, press, promise, recommend, request, remind, teach, tell, tempt, trouble, want, warn, wish. {verbe} + [Complment d'objet] + {infinitif} ex : I could feel him watch me. I made them go. Au passif, on utilise la forme "to + infinitif": ex :He was made to feel unwelcome.
Dans ce groupe on inclut la plupart ( mais pas tous) des auxiliaires modaux, et les verbes de perception, c'est-dire : could, feel, hear, help, let, make, may, might, must, notice, see, shall, should, watch, will, would. {verbe} + {grondif} ex : I considered retiring. ex : I enjoy running first thing in the morning. Sont inclus les verbes : admit, advise, appreciate, avoid, can't help, can't stand, consider, contemplate, delay, deny, detest, dislike, endure, enjoy, escape, excuse, face, feel like, finish, forgive, give up, go on, imagine, involve, keep, leave off, mention, mind, miss, postpone, practice, prefer, put off, resent, resist, risk, stop, suggest, understand.
Quelques verbes peuvent, soit tre au grondif ,soit l'infinitif, il y a trs peu de diffrence entre les deux : I like skiing. I like to ski. En gnral, le grondif rfre une activit gnrale alors que l'infinitif rfre un cas spcifique. Il y a quelques exceptions importantes cela dit : Remember to visit my mother. Remember visiting my mother? Dans ce cas l, le grondif rfre ce qui s'est pass avant le verbe principal, et l'infinitif ce qui est arriv aprs le verbe principal. Remember visiting my mother? = you visited her in the past and now I am asking you to remember it. Remember to visit my mother. = you must remember now that you will visit my mother in a while. Cette forme inclut les verbes : advise, allow, attempt, begin, can't bear, continue, forbid, forget, go on, hate, hear, intend, like, love, permit, prefer, propose, regret, remember, see, start, stop, try, watch.