Knowing the difference betweengerund and infinitive can save you from making costly grammar mistakes when writing. In a nutshell, a word formed from a verb acting as a noun and ending in ing is a gerund. Infinitivephrases – normally referred to asinfinitives – are formed with the word to ...
Choosing between the gerund and infinitive when they are theobject of the sentencecan cause a lot of difficulties for students of English. If they are the object of the sentence, that means theycome after the verb. Make sure you look at the previous lessons ongerundsandinfinitivesto see which...
I am looking forward to ...(see) you? The question is: May I use see in the gerund form or in the infinitive form?
Brimming with information, this review of participles will answer any questions you have on the subject. To review, gerunds are used as nouns, while present participles are used in verb tenses and participle phrases are used as adjectives. The following sentences show how gerunds and participles/p...
Beginning is a present participle, no matter how it's used. You can tell because it's the plain form of the verb (the part after to in the infinitive) with the suffix -ing appended. Is swimming a gerund? Swimming is a verb; the present participle of swim. Here, it is the subject...
再请注意:有一些动词除了可接动名词外,也可接不定词(infinitive)。例子如下: 1. I prefer living in an apartment. (动词prefer接动名词 living) 2. I prefer to live in an apartment. (动词prefer接不定词 to live) 像上面两个句子的意思没什么不同。如 prefer 这一类的动词还有: allow deserve ...
You bring up a good point – which verb you use for these activities really depends on the region / variety of English you’re speaking! Here in the US, it’s not as common to use “cycling” for the action, but you would use “cyclist” for the person doing the action, especially...
knowledge of infinitives as subjects of the clause and as objects of a preposition via an elicited production task and a contextualized preference task. The results of both tasks showed less infinitive use by the HSs and overextension of the gerund in contexts where it is not required. The res...