Gerunds and Infinitives: Usage and Meaning Differences, Apuntes de Inglés

¡Descarga Gerunds and Infinitives: Usage and Meaning Differences y más Apuntes en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES GERUNDS INFINITIVES As a subject of a sentence. e Swimmingis good for your health e Learning a language takes time. e Using a computer saves a lot of time. After adjectives. + [am happy to see you After some verbs: Admit, advise, avoid, consider, dislike, Enjoy, explain, finish, forgive, miss, prevent, recommend, deny , can't stand, suggest, keep)... e Doyou enjoy working with animals? e Hemisses playing with his friends After some verbs: Agree, ask, decide, deserve, expect, hope, learn, manage, need, offer, promise , refuse, seem, threaten, wait, want, wish, agree, choose, appear... e Did you learn to speak Italian at school? e Do you want to play basketball? After prepositions. e Mysisteris good at swimming +. Before applying for jobs, do some work experience. To express a purpose. e /|gotothe swimming pool to swim. e | study hard to pass the exam. Verbs followed by a gerund or infinitive with a change in meaning Regret + Regret + infinitive > | regret to tell you that we can't do anything. (There's no solution) + Regret + gerund > They regret going to the concert. It wasn't good. (It refers to the past) Remember + Remember + infinitive > Remember to phone her tomorrow (It refers to a future action). + Remember + gerund >| remember seeing them together (It refers to the past) Stop e Stop + infinitive > On the way home, | stopped to buy some milk. (An action is interrupted to do another) e Stop +gerund > He didn't stop thinking about the trip in London.