Verb + Gerund or Infinitive
| | Common verbs followed by Gerund
| Common verbs followed by Infinitive
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| Accuse
Admit
Advise
Anticipate
Appreciate
Avoid
Complete
Consider
Delay
Deny
Discuss
Dislike
Enjoy
Finish
Hate
Can’t help
Keep
Look forward to
Mention
Mind
Miss
Practice
Recommend
Regret
Remember
Resist
Risk
Suggest
Understand
Be worth
| Afford
Agree
Arrange
Ask
Care
Decide
Demand
Deserve
Expect
Fail
Hesitate
Hope
Learn
Manage
Mean
Offer
Plan
Prepare
Pretend
Promise
Refuse
Seem
Struggle
Threaten
Volunteer
Wait
Want
Wish
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Gerund/Infinitive
| Use
| Examples
| Notes
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| Some verbs can be followed by either Gerund or Infinitive:
1. With start, begin, continue the meaning is the same.
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I started to work/ working.
It began to rain/raining.
He continued to talk/talking.
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| 2. With forget, stop, remember, try, need, like the meaning changes.
· forget+Infinitive
forget+Gerund
· stop+Infinitive
stop+Gerund
· remember+Infinitive
remember+Gerund
· try+Infinitive
try+Gerund
· need+Infinitive
need+Gerund
· like+Infinitive
like+Gerund
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He forgot to meet his wife at the station.
I’ll never forget meeting her for the first time.
I stopped to read the notice on the door.
I stopped reading and switched on the TV.
I must remember to write to him!
I remember writing to him last week.
I’m trying to do this crossword.
Why don’t you try doing yoga?
You need to clean the car.
Your car needs cleaning.
She likes listening to pop-music.
She likes to come to the railway station an hour before the departure.
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=He didn’t meet her because he forgot.
=I met her. I’ll never forget it.
=I stopped walking because I wanted to read it.
=I stopped doing it because I wanted to do smth.else.
=I must remember first and then write.
=I wrote to him. Now I remember.
=It’s hard but I’m making an effort.
=It might help you relax.
=You have to clean it.
=It has to be cleaned.
=She enjoys it.
=She thinks that it is more convenient.
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