-ing And the infinitive Flashcards
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When we are talking about finished action, which structure can we use?
V + having past.p
Which verbs can be followed by a that-clause?
admit
deny
suggest
Which words can go before an to-inf?
Offer, decide, hope, deserve, promise, agree, plan, manage, afford, threaten, refuse, arrange, fail, forget, learn, seem, appear, tend, pretend, claim
Which verbs can be followed by a question word?
Ask, decide, know, remember, forget, explain, learn, understand, wonder
Which words can be followed by the structure ‘V + sb + wh-‘?
Show, tell, ask, advise, teach
Which verbs can have the structure ‘V + obj + to-inf’?
Tell, remind, force, encourage, teach, enable, order, warn, invite, persuade, get
Make and let can have which structure?
V + obj + inf
Which words can be followed by both -ing and to-inf?
Remember, regret, go on, begin, start, continue, intend, bother
Remember + -ing?
I did it and now I remember this
Remember + to-inf?
Remember that you have to do it
Go on + -ing?
Continue with the same thing
Go on + to-inf?
do or say something new
Try to do?
Attempt to do, make an effort to do
Try doing sth?
Do sth as an experiment or test
Need to do sth?
It’s necessary for me to do it
Something needs doing?
It’s need to be done
I can’t help doing sth?
I can’t stop myself doing it
Would like/love + -ing or to-inf?
to-inf
like doing sth?
you do it and you enjoy it
like to do sth?
You think it’s a good thing to do, but you don’t necessary to enjoy it
I would like/love/hate/prefer to have done sth?
I regret now that I didn’t or couldn’t do it
Which structure can be used to say what you prefer in general?
prefer + -ing
prefer + to-inf
prefer with a noun?
PREFER sth TO sth else
prefer with a verb?
PREFER doing sth TO doing sth
PREFER to do sth RATHER THAN do sth