The Infinitive

Июль 21, 2022

Содержание

2. Try + gerund to experiment in order to achieve an objective. Try going to bed earlier
3. Stop +gerund to finish an activity Stop talking and get on with your work! +infinitive to
4. Regret +gerund to be sorry about an action in the past Many people regret marrying young.
5. Forget/remember +gerund to (not) recall an action. I distinctly remember asking them to come after lunch.
6. Go on +gerund to continue an action I’ll go on loving you until I die. +infinitive
7. Mean +gerund to involve Dieting usually means giving up sweet things. +infinitive to be one’s intention
8. The infinitive is only possible with mean in perfect and past tenses. The verbs of perception
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Try
+ gerund to experiment in order to achieve an objective.
Try going

to bed earlier and see if that helps
+ infinitive to attempt a difficult action.
Jill’s been trying to get a gob since she left school, but with no success.

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Stop
+gerund to finish an activity
Stop talking and get on with

your work!
+infinitive to interrupt one activity in order to do another.
Roger stopped to have a cup of tea.

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Regret
+gerund to be sorry about an action in the past
Many

people regret marrying young.
+infinitive to be sorry about what you are going to say.
Dr. Taylor regrets to say that he is unable to see patients without an appointment.

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Forget/remember
+gerund to (not) recall an action.
I distinctly remember asking them to

come after lunch.
I won’t forget seeing Christie win the gold medal as long as I live.
+ infinitive to not do an action you must do.
Ann remembered to lock all the doors when she went on holiday, but she forget to close the bathroom window.

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Go on
+gerund to continue an action
I’ll go on loving you until

I die.
+infinitive to finish one activity and start another
After sever years of study, Andy went on to become a doctor.

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Mean
+gerund to involve
Dieting usually means giving up sweet things.
+infinitive to

be one’s intention
I mean to send you a postcard but I forgot to take my address book.

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The infinitive is only possible with mean in perfect and

past tenses.
The verbs of perception see, feel, hear, smell have a different meaning when they are followed by the infinitive (without to) or a participle.
+ participle to experience part of an event
I noticed a man acting in a strange way.
+infinitive without to to experience the
Whole event
I heard my sister come in at 1 a.m.