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Verbs followed by Gerund Verbs followed by infinitive with to

Part 1
Enjoy + gerund Agree + to infinitive
Fancy Ask
Discuss Decide
Dislike Help
Finish Plan
Mind Hope
Suggest Learn
Recommend Want
Keep Would like
Avoid Promise

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Miss + gerund Can afford + to infinitive
Appreciate Manage
Delay Prepare
Postpone Demand
Practice Choose
Consider Offer
Can’t stand Wait
Can’t help Would hate
Risk Would love
Admit Seem
Part 3
Deny + gerund Expect + infinitive
Mention Intend
Imagine Pretend
Tolerate Refuse
Understand Tend
Involve Would prefer
Complete Deserve
Report Appear
Anticipate Arrange
Recall Claim
Verb Pattern

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Part 4

Verbs + Gerund + Infinitive


Remembe When you remembered sth that has When you think of sth that you
r happened in the past. You have a need to do. (And usually, you then do
memory of it, like being able to see a the thing).
movie of it in your head.

Forget When you forget about a memory, sth When you want to do sth, but you
that you’ve done in the past. forget about it.

Try When you do sth as an experiment. When the thing you do itself is
The thing you do is not difficult, but difficult. In the present tense or future
you want to see if doing it will have the tense, this means you might not
result that you want. succeed in doing it. In the past tense,
it means that you made an effort to do
the thing, but you did not succeed.

Stop When we stop doing something it In this case, we stop something else
means the verb in the gerund is the in order to do the verb in the
thing that we stop. It can mean 'stop infinitive.
forever' or 'stop at that moment'.

Regret This is when you are sorry about We use this construction when we
something you did in the past and you are giving someone bad news, in
wish you hadn't done it. quite a formal way. The verb is
almost always something like 'say' or
'tell' or 'inform'.

Verbs followed by gerund and infinitive without changing in meaning


begin He began talking / to talk.
continue They continue smoking / to smoke.
hate Do you hate working / to work on Saturdays?
Like I like swimming / to swim.
Love She loves painting / to paint.
Prefer Pat prefers walking / to walk home.
Start They start singing / to sing.

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Verbs followed by an indirect object plus an infinitive
ask I must ask you to reconsider your statement.

beg They begged her to stay for another term.

cause His findings caused him to investigate further.

challenge Wilkins challenged Watson to continue the research.

convince Can we convince them to fund our study?

encourage She encouraged him to look beyond the obvious.

expect They did not expect us to win an award.

forbid The author forbade me to change his wording.

force They cannot force her to reveal her sources.

hire Did the department hire him to teach the new course?

instruct I will instruct her to prepare a handout.

invite We invite you to attend the ceremony.

need They need her to show the slides.

order He ordered the group to leave the building.

persuade Can we persuade you to contribute again?

remind Please remind him to check the references.

require They will require you to submit an outline.

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teach We should teach them to follow standard procedures.

tell Did she tell him to make three copies?

urge I urge you to read the instructions before you begin.

want I do not want you to have an accident.

warn Why didn’t they warn me to turn down the heat?

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