1.

GERUNDIO (-ING)
El gerundio se usa:
a. Como sujeto de una oración:
Fumar es malo para la salud Smoking is bad for health
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b. Detrás de ciertos verbos:
Admit anticipate avoid consider delay deny detest
enjoy excuse practise fancy finish forgive
can't help imagine involve keep (= continue) mind miss
postpone resist risk can't stand

My husband detests doing his own cooking

c. Detrás de una preposición: At, in, on, with, without, before, after...
She didn't have much difficulty in finding a job.
d. Detrás de los phrasal verbs.
She gave up smoking two years ago.
e. Detrás de ciertas expresiones.
It's no good to be worth to look forward to to feel like spend/waste time
go + actividad (especif. deportes): go swimming

2. INFINITIVO CON TO
El infinitivo con to se usa:
a. Detrás de ciertos verbos:
Afford agree appear arrange ask care decide
expect fail help hesitate hope learn manage
neglect prepare pretend proceed promise refuse seem
swear tend want

The principal seems to be a pleasant person

b. Verbo + objeto + infinitivo con to

He told her to come back the next day
c. Adjetivo + infinitivo con to
I'm sorry to say I've got a class on Friday afternoon.
d. Sustantivo + infinitivo con to
I have two more suitcases to pack
e. How, what, when...+ infinitivo con to
Can you tell me how to get to the library?
f. Compuestos de Some, any, no + infinitivo con to
Would you like something to drink?
g. Infinitivo de propósito:
I went to the library to borrow some books. (Fui a la biblioteca para coger algunos libros)
h. Después de FIRST y LAST: She was the first to arrive and the last to leave
i. Después de too + adjective y adjective + enough
She was to happy to speak It isn’t good enough to pass

3. INFINITIVO SIN TO
El infinitivo sin to se usa:
a. Detrás de los verbos modales: Can, can't, must, mustn't, need, needn't, will, shall, should, would, may,
might...
He may come tomorrow
b. Detrás de Make / Let + objeto.
He made me study He let her go out

4. VERBOS SEGUIDOS DE GERUNDIO e INFINITIVO CON TO

4.1 SIN CAMBIO DE SIGNIFICADO
1. Los verbos Like, love, hate, prefer
1. Si están en presente se siguen de gerundio (-ing)
I like singing
2. Si están en condicional, se siguen siempre de infinitivo con to
I would like to sing in the Opera House.
2. Begin, continue, start

4.2. CON CAMBIO DE SIGNIFICADO

1. Remember
1. Estos verbos se siguen de un Gerundio cuando recordamos algo que ha sucedido en el pasado.
I remember seeing the Queen when I was a child.
2. Sin embargo, estos verbos se siguen de Infinitivo con "to" cuando tenemos que acordarnos de hacer algo.
Will you remember to post the letter?

2. Stop:
1. Cuando significa "dejar de hacer algo" se sigue de gerundio.
She stopped smoking two years ago.
2. Cuando significa "parar para hacer algo" se sigue de infinitivo con to.
She stopped to talk to a friend.
3. Regret:
1. Cuando significa "sentir (o no) haber hecho algo en el pasado" se sigue de gerundio.
I don't regret leaving my last job at all.
2. Cuando significa "sentir (o no) hacer algo en el momento que hablas" se sigue de infinitivo con to.
Dr Wimpole regrets to say that he cannot answer readers' letters.
4. Go on:
1. Continuar haciendo algo: gerundio: She went on studying although he was tired.
2. Hacer algo después de hacer otra cosa: infinitivo con “to”: After school, he will go on to study law.
5. Mean
1. Conllevar: gerundio:
Getting good marks means studying hard
2. Tener la intención de: infinitivo:
Sorry, I didn’t mean to shout at you.