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GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES
- GERUND
- After certain verbs
- Admit, Avoid, Consider,
Detest, Dislike, Enjoy, Finish,
Hate, Imagine, Involve, Keep,
Like, Love, Mind, Miss,
Postpone, Resist, Risk, Stop,
Suggest
- After certain phrases
- Be worth, Be used to, Can't
help, Can't stand, Look forward
to, it's no use
- After a preposition
- Example: I'm interested in buying
that car
- As the subject of a sentence
- Example: Smoking is unhealthy
- TO +INFINITIVE
- After most verbs
- Agree, Appear, Arrange, Ask, Choose,
Dare, Decide, Demand, Expect,
Happen, Hope, Learn, Manage, Offer,
Plan, Promise, Pretend, Seem,
Threaten, etc
- After an adjective
- Example: We were very happy
to see her
- With an adjective used with
"too" or "enough"
- Example: He isn't good enough to
play for an NBA team
- After a noun
- Example: Our decision to close
the firm was very difficult