📄️ Verb patterns: verb + infinitive or verb + -ing?
Verbs followed by a to\-infinitive
📄️ Verb patterns: verb + that-clause
Reporting verbs + that-clause
📄️ Verb patterns: with and without objects
Verbs: transitive and intransitive uses
📄️ Hate, like, love and prefer
We can use hate, like, love and prefer with an -ing form or with a to\-infinitive:
📄️ Hear, see, etc. + object + infinitive or -ing
We can use either the infinitive without to or the -ing form after the object of verbs such as hear, see, notice, watch. The infinitive without to often emphasises the whole action or event which someone hears or sees. The -ing form usually emphasises an action or event which is in progress or not yet completed.
📄️ Help somebody (to) do
We use help with or without an object:
📄️ Look forward to
Look forward to something means to be pleased or excited that it is going to happen. The ‘to’ in look forward to is a preposition, so we must follow it by a noun phrase or a verb in the -ing form:
📄️ Stop + -ing form or to-infinitive
We use the -ing form after stop to indicate that an action or event is no longer continuing:
📄️ Would like
We use would like or ’d like to say politely what we want, especially when making offers and requests:
📄️ Would rather, would sooner
Would rather