VERB PATTERNS
1. VERBS TAKING THE GERUND
a. LIKES AND DISLIKES
- Love, like,enjoy, adore, fancy
- don’t mind / love / like, dislike, hate, can’t stand /bear
b. OTHERS
- suggest, avoid, finish, start, begin, can’t help, postpone
2. EXPRESSIONS taking the GERUND
Amount to, look forward to, object to, be/get accustanced to, be/get used to, It’s no use,
there’s no point in, spend/waste time on…
3. V. taking the INFINITIVE WITHOUT TO
a. MODALS: can, may, must, had better, should, woud rathe
b. let, make
4. V. taking the TO-INFINITIVE
have to, aught to, used to
5. V. TAKING THE INFINITIVE or GERUND with DIFFERENT MEANING
- Like / love / hate (likes and dislikes): followed by gerund
- Would + love/like + to infinitive: (desire)
- Remeber, forget:
- in present + gerund
- in past (imperative): to infinitive
- Stop:
- stop + gerund: dejar de hacer algo
- stop + to infinitive: dejar de hacer algo para hacer otra cosa
- Try:
- try + to infinitive: hacer una cosa
- try + gerund: probar de hacer una cosa
Remember: Verbs in english take the TO-INFINITIVE pattern