‘Unt 6 Crime ana Punishment > Focus on grammar 3 - Gerund or infinitive ‘Some verbs can take either the gerund or infinitive. Cover the right hand par of the page and look at 11 Remember and forget 2 Regret and dread 3 Like, love, hate nd prefer 4ty 5Mean 6 Need and want 7Go0n 8 Stop ST TTTTTTTTTTTTTNvetiteDoc-Scanner from.www.stoik.mobi_ the examples on the left. See if you can explain the difference in meaning between the example the gerund, and b with the infinitive. Check your explanations agains! those on the right of the page a Doyou remember seeing this man before? Hinever forget arriving in Venice by ship the fist time, b Remember to put out all the lights before you leave ''m attaid you forgot to sign the cheque a Do you regret not having gone to university? ''m dreading going to the dentist's. b | dread to think what might have happened it you'd tried to drive the car. | egret to tell you thal your application has not been successful a | simply love getting unexpected invitations, | don't ike cooking all that much Do you preter typing yout letters to writing them by hand? 'b Would you like to have a look round? | don't like to bother you when you re t but He likes to arrive in plenty of appointments. (You've locked yourself 0. a Trysinging the doorbell & b Trytoclimb in through the wine: 4@ Are you sure the job won't mean moving to another area? b He means to get at the truth, however long it takes. a The hedge needs trimming The piano wants tuning 'b We'llneed to borrow a substantial sum of money to repair the root ‘You want to ask John. He's the financial expert Bo you want to discuss the matter? They went on talking about the contract all evening » Alter describing the arrangements for our ‘accommodation, he went an o give us some Useful ips forliving abroad, @ Ifyou would stop crying for a moment, | might {ind out what's wrong, 'b He stopped to look at the map and then walked on, ‘These verbs take a gerund when they refer to an action which occurred beforehand. They take an infinitive when they refer to an action which comes afterwards ‘These verbs take the gerund when they refer to the past or likely future In addition, dread takes the infinitive to think’ and regret the infintives ‘to say’, to tell’ and "to inform’ These verbs may take either a gerund or an infinitive when they mean ‘to enjoy’ or take Pleasure in’. (Negative sentences, however, usually take a gerund.) When they mean ‘want’ or ‘wish’, they take the infinitive When preferis used in a comparison, the gerund is always used ‘When this verb takes the gerund, the meaning is. ‘expenment. (You will have no difficulty in ringing the bell but the action may or may not be successful in enabling you to enter ) When the infinitive is used, the meaning is ‘attempt. (You may or may not be successtul in climbing through the window.) With the gerund, the verbs means ‘involve’ With the infinitive, the verbo means ‘intend! \With the gerund, these verbs mean'be in need of With the infinitive, need means ‘have a need! ‘while want can mean ‘should/ought to (informally) or ‘wish With a gerund, this verb’ means ‘continue an action’ With an infinitive, the verts means ‘introduce a ‘new action’ ‘With a gerund, the verb means ‘cease’ With an infinitive, it means to interrupt one action inorder to perform another Processed by FREE version of STOIK 109