An English sentence cannot have two verbs. If you want to use two verbs together, you must change the form of one of them.
I like English.
I like learning English. A: Is that all right? I like learning English)
I like watching English movies. A: Is that all right? I like watching English movies)
When two verbs are used together, how to judge whether the first verb is followed by do or to do?
This can only be used for memory.
There are four such collocations in English:
1. You can use the words like, which have the same meaning.
Like stop, there are two forms, but their meanings are different. For example, stop doing something. Stop doing sth. Stop doing sth.
You can only do it, such as enjoy it.
4. You can only do it, such as deciding to do it.
The following verbs or phrases can be followed by do:
Acknowledge, acknowledge
Grateful, grateful
Avoid avoidance
Complete
think
delay
Deny, deny
Hate it
Endure
Enjoy liking
Run away
A strange imagination
Complete, complete
Imagine. Imagine.
Mind mind
Miss Xiang nian
Postpone
Practical training
recollections of the past
hate
Resume continuation
Resist resistance
take a risk
put forward proposals
Face to face
Include including
bear
Understand; Understanding
Forgive.
Keep moving.
For example, would you mind turning down your radio? Can you turn down the radio?
The squirrel was lucky. It was almost caught. This squirrel is very lucky. It just escaped being caught.
admit
Prefer to ...
be accustomed to
lead to
be committed to
opposition
observe
useless
useless
hobby
expect
happy
busy
cannot help doing
be sick of
can
be afraid
remember
turn up
continue
emphasize
rely on
put one's hand to
postpone
be adept in
take up
give up
success
The infinitive can be used for the following verbs or phrases:
provide
target
agree
arrange
ask
decision
trouble
mind
select
ask
desire
decision
elect
make an effort
hope
fail
help
study
have long eagerly awaited
mean
operate
provide
plan
pretend
refuse
be inclined to
undertake
Expectations
dislike
want
For example:
The driver failed to see another car in time. The driver failed to see another car in time.
He offered to help me. He offered to help me.
The infinitive of to needs to be omitted:
1) comes after modal verbs (except should).
2) let, have, make after causative verbs, and see, watch, look, notice, observe, hear, listen, SME, feel, find, etc. after sensory verbs.
Note: to cannot be omitted in the passive voice. For example:
I saw him dancing. I saw him dancing.
He was seen dancing.
The boss kept them working all night. The boss made them work all night.
They were forced to work all night.
3) After preferring, there are better sentence patterns.
4) Why…/why no… after the sentence pattern
Help can be followed by to or not to help someone do something:
6) After but and except. When but comes before the notional verb do, the infinitive that comes after it does not follow to.
He doesn't want to do anything except go out. He just wants to go out and play.
He is willing to believe anything except taking medicine. He believes everything except taking medicine.
7) For the two infinitives connected by and, or and than, the second to can be omitted:
8) Usually, when the object complement is done after the words such as discovery, imagination, hypothesis and thinking. , to be can be omitted. For example:
He is regarded as a good man. He should be a good man.
Some important differences:
Stop doing/do it
Stop doing something, stop doing something, stop doing other things. For example:
They stopped for a cigarette. They stopped to have a cigarette.
I must give up smoking. I must give up smoking.
Forget what to do.
Forget to do sth. Forget to do sth. For example:
The light in the office is still on. He forgot to turn it off. The light in the office was still on, and he forgot to turn it off. (Leave the light on)
He forgot to turn off the light. He forgot that he had turned off the light. (The light has been turned off)
3) Remember to do/want to do
Remember to do something, remember to do something, remember to do something. For example:
Remember to go to the post office after school. Remember to go to the post office after school.
Don't you remember seeing this man before? Don't you remember seeing that man before?
Regret doing/doing
Regret what you will do, regret what you have done. For example:
I'm sorry to have to do this, but I have no choice. I'm sorry I have to do this. I really have no choice.
I don't regret telling her what I think.
Stop doing sth.
Stop doing something for a long time, even forever. Stop doing sth. Stop doing sth. for a short time and will continue to do it later. For example:
That department has existed forever. That department no longer exists.
When the teacher passed by, the girls stopped chatting for a while. When the teacher passed by, the girls stopped to chat.
Try to do
Try to do something, try to do something, try to do something. For example:
You must try to care more. You should be more careful.
I tried to grow fruits and flowers, but I didn't succeed.
Keep doing it.
Continue to do one thing, then do another thing, continue to do the original thing. For example:
After he finished math, he went on to do physics. After studying mathematics, he went on to study physics.
After finishing this exercise, continue to do another exercise. After finishing this exercise, continue to do other exercises.
be afraid to do sth.
Dare not do is dare not do something, which is subjective and means "fear". Fear of doing is worrying about the situation and results of doing it. Doing is caused objectively, which means "I am afraid, I am afraid". For example:
She didn't dare to take another step in the grass because she was afraid of being bitten by a snake.
She was afraid of being bitten by a snake and dared not take another step in the grass.
She is afraid of waking her husband.
She is afraid of waking her husband. She is afraid of waking her husband.
Be interested in doing sth.
Interested in doing is interested in doing something, wanting to know something, interested in doing is interested in an idea, and doing is usually an idea. For example:
I really want to know what happened. I really want to know what happened. (I want to know)
I'm interested in working in Switzerland. Do you have any thoughts about this?
I'm interested in working in Switzerland. Have you thought about this? (an idea)
It means doing sth.
It means thinking, and it means doing. For example:
I want to go, but my father won't let me. I want to go, but my father won't let me.
Raising wages means increasing purchasing power. Increasing wages means increasing purchasing power.
Start doing sth.
Start doing sth.
A) When talking about a long-term activity or starting a habit, use doing. For example:
How old were you when you started playing the piano? How old were you when you started playing the piano?
B) begin, start is used in the continuous tense, followed by the infinitive to do. For example:
I'm getting angry. I'm getting angry.
C) When verbs such as try, intention, begin and start are followed by know, understand and realize, the infinitive to do is usually used. For example:
I'm beginning to understand the truth. I began to understand the truth.
D) when something is the subject. For example:
The snow began to melt. The snow began to melt.
12) Sensory verb+do/want to do
Sensory verbs look, look, observe, pay attention, look, listen, smell, taste, feel +do indicates the completion of the action, and +do indicates the progress of the action. For example:
I saw him working in the garden yesterday. I saw him working in the garden yesterday. (emphasize the fact that "I saw it")
I saw him working in the garden yesterday. I saw him working in the garden yesterday. Want to do sth.
Want to do sth.
like to do sth.
like to do sth.
There are many more. Upstairs are some fixed collocation and another example:
Go on to is to continue to do something, but there is a difference.
To continue to do is to end one thing and continue to do another.
To keep doing is to keep doing the same thing.
Enjoy, suggest, practice, consider, complete, spend and then do something.
Besides, forgetting to do something means forgetting to do something.
Forgetting to do something means forgetting to do something.
To stop doing something means to stop doing something.
To stop doing something means to stop doing another thing.