{"id":469,"date":"2021-04-02T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/?p=469"},"modified":"2021-04-02T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T05:46:24","slug":"infinitive-or-ing-cas-2-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/2021\/04\/02\/infinitive-or-ing-cas-2-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinitive or -ing? cas 2.4.2021."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some verbs can be followed either by -ing and some by the infinitive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verbs\/phrases followed by -ing: enjoy, like, love, hate, prefer, keep, don't mind, can't help, can't stop, begin, start, finish, continue, etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verbs\/phrases followed by the infinitive: tell, ask, expect, warn, decide, invite, plan, want, seem, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verbs followed by the infinitive without to: modal verbs, let, make(somebody do something)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Infinitive<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Forming the infinitive<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>The infinitive is the base form of a verb. In English, when we talk about the infinitive, we usually refer to the present infinitive, which is the most common. There are, however, four other forms of the infinitive:\u00a0the perfect infinitive,\u00a0the perfect continuous infinitive,\u00a0the continuous infinitive, &amp;\u00a0the passive infinitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The present infinitive has two forms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>the to-infinitive\u00a0= to + base<\/li><li>the zero infinitive\u00a0= base<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gerund verb+ing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gerund looks exactly the same as a present participle, but it is useful to understand the difference between the two. The gerund has both noun and verb properties. A Gerund may function as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gerund as the <strong>subject of the sentence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eating people is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hunting tigers is dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The gerund as the complement of the verb &#8216;to be&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of his duties is attending meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hardest thing about learning English is understanding the gerund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of life's pleasures is having breakfast in bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gerund as<strong> the object<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don't like getting up early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It began raining while I was on my way home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John preferred skating to skiing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gerund as <strong>object of the preposition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left without saying anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She succeeded in passing all her exams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She thought of going shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some verbs can be followed either by -ing and some by the infinitive. Verbs\/phrases followed by -ing: enjoy, like, love, hate, prefer, keep, don't mind, can't help, can't stop, begin, start, finish, continue, etc Verbs\/phrases followed by the infinitive: tell, ask, expect, warn, decide, invite, plan, want, seem, etc. Verbs followed by the infinitive without&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"button small blue\" href=\"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/2021\/04\/02\/infinitive-or-ing-cas-2-4-2021\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gimnazija-ii5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssntb.org\/sanjamarjanovic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}