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1. The following verbs are used as objects with gerunds: ++doing.
Admit that you don't like it, don't like to finish it, and give up after practicing.
It's useless to suggest discussing and imagining prevention.
If you are allowed to escape, you will escape, and if you are forbidden, you will keep it.
Appreciate, appreciate and enjoy Miss Eyre's report.
Avoid excuses, forgive, and mention adventure.
Consider giving forgiveness, mind making suggestions.
Postpone, forbid, forbid, forgive, forgive and understand.
Deny denied fancy's assumption that postponement was allowed.
Example:
I suggest waiting a few more days. I suggest waiting a few more days.
I admit that I broke the window. I admit that I broke the window.
Try to imagine being on the moon. Try to imagine that you are on the moon.
He tried to escape punishment. He tried to escape punishment.
You should keep thinking about it. You shouldn't dwell on it.
Would you mind going with her? Can you go with her?
I can't understand such a negative child. I can't understand being so careless with children.
We are only five minutes away from meeting. We couldn't meet because it was five minutes short.
The following verbs usually only take infinitives (not gerunds) as objects: ++to do.
Affordable choice, failure decision, failure management and commitment attempt.
Agree to the decision to help propose and reject the proposed decision.
Arrange, test the demand, ask hesitate to plan, think about it.
Make up your mind. Hope, hope and prepare, hope and prepare.
Care to look forward to, look forward to for a long time, eager to pretend, pretend.
Example:
I can't afford a car.
She refused to help me.
He agreed to come at once. He agreed to come at once.
He managed to avoid an accident. He managed to avoid an accident.
The boy decided not to be a sailor. The boy decided not to be a sailor in the future.
He decided to go abroad later. He decided to go abroad in the future.
He doesn't know the truth. He pretended not to know the truth.
The following verbs can be followed by infinitives and gerunds with the same meaning +do =+to do.
Like, like, like to continue. Will want it.
Love likes to start. Can't stand trying.
Hate begins, start both, trouble stops, stop.
Example:
He likes singing. He likes singing.
It began to rain. It began to rain.
You needn't bother to come. You needn't bother to come.
The baby cried all night. The child cried all night.
note:
(1) When like, love, hate, prefer and should are used together, only infinitives can follow:
I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something.
I hate spending Christmas alone. I don't like spending Christmas alone.
(2) When begin and start are progressive tenses or followed by static verbs such as know, realize and understand, the following verbs can only be infinitive:
He began to cook. He began to cook.
He began to realize that he was wrong. He began to realize that he was wrong.
The following verbs can be followed by infinitives and gerunds, but their meanings are different.
(1) Remember, forget and regret that an infinitive followed by an infinitive means that the action indicated by the infinitive did not happen, followed by a gerund (sometimes the perfect form can be used) means that the action indicated by the gerund happened. Comparison:
Remember to post the letter. Remember to post this letter. ("mailing" did not happen)
I remember posting that letter. I remember posting that letter. ("Mail" has occurred)
He forgot to pay me. He forgot to pay me. ("Payment" did not occur)
He forgot to give me money. He forgot to pay me. ("Giving" takes place)
(2) try followed by infinitive means trying to do something, and gerund means trying to do something (see what effect it has):
I'll try to come tomorrow. I'll try to come tomorrow.
Let's try knocking at the back door. Let's try knocking at the back door.
(3) mean followed by infinitive means doing something, and gerund means doing something:
He is going to be a teacher. He will be a teacher.
He didn't mean to hurt you. He didn't mean to hurt you.
This disease means going to the hospital. Having this disease means being hospitalized.
(4) stop followed by gerund means to stop doing something, infinitive means to stop doing something and do something else:
He stopped talking, and there was no sound in the room. He stopped talking and there was no sound in the room.
He stopped to listen, but there was no sound. He stopped to listen, but he never heard anything again.
Note: when followed by an infinitive, the infinitive is not an object, but an adverbial of purpose.
(5) can't help is followed by a gerund, and an infinitive means that you can't help do something:
He couldn't help crying when he heard the news. He couldn't help crying when he heard the news.
This medicine can't help you cure your cold. This medicine won't cure your cold.
(6) go on followed by infinitive means to do something after finishing something, and gerund means to continue doing what you are doing:
You shouldn't go on living like this. You should stop living like this. After finishing this exercise, continue to do other exercises. After you finish this exercise, please continue to do other exercises.
Note: some people think that doing in go on doing sth is a present participle rather than a gerund.
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