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Infinitives and Gerunds Explained

This document summarizes different uses of infinitives, gerunds, and infinitives or gerunds in English. It lists contexts where a full infinitive, plain infinitive, or gerund is used after certain verbs and prepositions. It also notes that verbs of liking/disliking take a gerund in the present and infinitive in the conditional, and that verbs like start, begin, remember, forget, stop can be followed by an infinitive or gerund in certain contexts.

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Infinitives and Gerunds Explained

This document summarizes different uses of infinitives, gerunds, and infinitives or gerunds in English. It lists contexts where a full infinitive, plain infinitive, or gerund is used after certain verbs and prepositions. It also notes that verbs of liking/disliking take a gerund in the present and infinitive in the conditional, and that verbs like start, begin, remember, forget, stop can be followed by an infinitive or gerund in certain contexts.

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FULL INFINITIVE PLAIN INFINITIVE GERUND INFINITIVE OR

GERUND
After adjectives After auxiliary verbs After prepositions, Verbs of like /dislike
It is easy to make (except ought) phrasal verbs and in the present take a
mistakes I cant drive adverbs gerund and in the
Infinitive of purpose After make and let (in I am interested in visiting conditional take a full
She went to the shop to the active voice) Greece infinitive
buy some flour My parents didnt let me As the subject of the I like swimming
After verbs: want, go out sentence Would you like to go to
plan, decide, After help Reading a language is the park?
pretend Ill help you find a job easier than writing it Start and begin
Do you want to sit down? After verbs: mind, It began to rain/ raining
Ought to enjoy, spend, finish, It is starting to rain
You ought to sleep more cant help Remember and forget
After help Would you mind opening Did you remember to
Ill help you to find a job the window? phone him?
I remember playing
football at school
Stop
Why dont you stop
smoking?
He stopped to say hello

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