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CORRECT YOUR ENGLISH: Top 10 Mistakes with Gerunds & Infinitives
It takes time to mastergerunds and infinitives in English. In this lesson, I identify and correct the ten most common mistakes that English learners make with gerunds and infinitives. Do you make any of them? For example, if you want to say that you do not smoke anymore, should you say “I quit smoking” or “I quit to smoke”? Is it “I need go to the bathroom” or “I need to go to the bathroom”? What about the idiomatic phrase “look forward to”? Should you say “I’m looking forward to hear from you” or “I’m looking forward to hearing from you”? Find out, then do the quiz to double check your understanding.
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This is a useful lesson because english learners use to confuse where to use gerund and infinitive forms, I just wrote down those tips, millions thanks Alex.
Greetings from Venezuela
My pleasure, Arnasa! I’m glad you found it useful.
Very educative because this guides you best use gerund and infinitives well, thanks
You’re very welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Good lesson thank you Alex.
You’re welcome. I enjoyed preparing it.
1) Unfortunately, our Russian-speaking teachers, who taught us English at school, said that need is one of the modal verbs. But need is commonly used as the main verb. The principle is that we must use the particle “to” between two verbs.
2) The Gerund combines the features of a noun and a verb. So we must use the Gerund as the object of a sentence following a verb.
3) The Subject of the sentence “Playing badminton is fun” looks like a noun, because, like a noun, it answers the question “what?”. That’s why we use the Gerund in this sentence.
Are these principles correct?
In general, yes, though for point #2, just remember that gerunds can be more than the objects of verbs. :) They can serve other functions, such as being the objects of prepositions, as in “I’m interested in learning more.”
Well done overall!
Thank you Alex, simple and difficult at the same time.
Welcome to language learning! I hope it becomes simpler over time. :)
I appreciate you Alex
Thank you Alex.
Thank you Alex. I love it so much.
thanks for your alex sir.
Thank you, Alex.
it was so hard to me
Thank you Alex! it’s difficult for me…
Thank you for the lesson. It was very usefull for me!
thank you for your effort. ıt is so useful for me.
great and useful lesson. thank you, Alex.