Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Whether a verb uses a gerund and/or an infinitive can be a tricky part of the English language. The more you read and use them in context, the easier it will be to learn! Here are a few verbs and examples to help distinguish their use!
VERBS THAT TAKE INFINITIVES: choose, continue, dare, expect, fail, hope, intend, manage, proceed, promise, refuse, tend, want, vow (and more)
Example: I choose to go to class early.
VERBS THAT TAKE GERUNDS: admit, appreciate, avoid, defend, deny, dislike, enjoy, finish, intend, resume, stop (and more)
Example: I enjoy swimming in the summer.
VERBS THAT CAN TAKE BOTH: begin, continue, forget, hate, like, love, prefer, regret, remember, start, try
Example: I continued to call her after she left.
I continued calling her after she left.
Note: some verbs change meaning depending on the infinitive or gerund use.
Example: I forgot to meet her for lunch. (I did not remember our appointment, so I did not meet her.)
I forgot meeting her before. (I met her in the past, but I have no memory of it – perhaps because it was a long, long time ago.)
