📖 Gerunds and Infinitives Rules: Verbs + -ing vs To + Verb

Level: B1 | Focus: Verb patterns with gerund and infinitive

Grammar Gerunds gerunds infinitives rules grammar

1. Verbs + Gerund (enjoy, finish, avoid, mind, practice, suggest)

I enjoy reading. She finished working. He avoided answering.

2. Verbs + Infinitive (want, need, decide, hope, plan, promise)

I want to learn. She needs to study. He decided to leave.

3. Verbs with meaning change (stop, remember, forget, regret, try)

• stop smoking vs stop to smoke
• remember locking vs remember to lock
• forget meeting vs forget to meet
• regret saying vs regret to say
• try taking vs try to open

4. Gerund after prepositions

Thank you for helping. I'm interested in learning. She is afraid of flying.

5. Gerund as subject

Smoking is bad. Reading improves vocabulary.

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