GERUNDS RULES.
1.After verbs of feeling and opinion:
admit, avoid, consider, deny, dislike,
enjoy, fancy, feel, like, finish, can’t help,
involve, keep, mean, mind, love, miss, practice,
risk, can’t stand, spend, suggest, prefer, hate,
remember.
e.g:A healthy life involves taking exercises.
2. After prepositions (for, of, about, with,
without etc)
e.g: I am interested in taking photograps.
3. as a subject
e.g: Fishing is a very boring activity
4. after certain expressions:
Don´t mind-No improrta, look forward to-
Esperar con ancias, it´s worth-Merecido, how
about –Que tal si, can´t help-No puedo
ayudar, feel like-Me gustaría, it´s not use-No
es usado, there is no point in-No hay punto
en, it´s not good –No es bueno, can´t stand-
No soportar.
e.g: I´m looking forward to finishing university.
5. After the verb go to indicate physical
activities:
e.g: we go running every day
INFINITIVE RULES
1. After some verbs:
Afford, agree, appear, arrange, choose, decide,
forget, hope, promise, seem, tend, would like,
would love, aim, fail, intend, learn, Manage,
need, offer, plan, prefer, refuse, try, want.
e.g:You need to fill in the blanks.
2. To express purpose:
e.g: He got up very early to study
3. After some adjectives which can be used
in phrases with “be”
be supposed to, be expected to, be allowed to,
be prepared to
e.g: You are not supposed to do all the job
4.After adjective that describe how
someone feel about something:
Afraid, anxious, ashamed, careful,
determined, free, frightened, happy, keen,
quick, ready, sorry, willing
e.g: We are happy to celebrate our fifth
anniversary.
5. After verbs followed by an object
advise, allow, dare, encourage, forbid, force,
instruct, order, permit, persuade, remind,
teach, tell e.g.: I told him to stay there.
My English teacher advised me to listen to
English music.
6. After too and enough
The soup is too hot to eat.
7. after the structure it+be+adjective
e.g. It is difficult to understand.
8. After verbs followed by question word
(who, what, where, which, how)
e.g: have you decided how to go to Neiva?
9. BARE INFINNITIVE
 After modals verbs
e.g: You must take the course
 After the verbs let and make
e.g: Teacher Carlos made me do 3 reading exercises