INFINITIVE OR ING FORM

1. INFINITIVE OR –ING FORM
 Infinitive:
- Se utiliza detrás de los siguientes verbos:
Agree: estar de acuerdo hope: esperar
Aim: apuntar manage: dirigir
Appear: aparecer offer: ofrecer
Arrange: arreglar plan: planear
Ask. Preguntar prepare: preparar
Attempt: intentar pretend: pretender
Beg: mendigar promise: prometer
Can´t afford: poder permitirse prove: probar
Can´t wait: estar deseando refuse: rehusar
Choose: elegir seem: parecer
Claim: reclamar tend: cuidar
Decide: decider threaten: amenazar
Expect: esperar turn out: apagar
Fail: suspender undertake: emprender
Happen: suceder want: querer
Help: ayudar wish. Desear
- Se utiliza detrás de would like, would prefer, would love, etc para expresar una
preferencia específica. Example: I would prefer to stay in tonight.
- Después de adjetivos que decriben sentimientos/emociones . Adjetivos que se
refieren al carácter de una persona.
- Después de too/enough.
- Para hablar de un evento inesperado.
- Después de be + first/second/next/last etc. Example: he was the last person to
talk to me.
- Con it + Be + adjective/noun. Example: It wasn´t easy to find a new job.
 Infinitivo sin “to” es usado:
- Después de un verbo modal.
- Después de verbos como: let, make , see, hear, and feel. (a excepción del verbo
be, en la forma pasiva).
- Help puede ir seguido de to- infinitive o infinitive.
- Después de had better y would rather.
 -ing form:
- Se utiliza con los siguientes verbos:
Admit: admitir detest: detestar
Avoid: evitar dislike: tener antipatía a
Can´t face: no enfrentarse enjoy: disfrutar
Can´t help: no poder evitar excuse: excusar
Can´t resist: no poder resistir fancy: tener ganas de algo
Can´t stand: no aguantar finish: acabar
Carry on: continuar give up: rendirse
Consider: considerer imagine: imaginar
Delay: aplazar involve: suponer
Denny: negar justify: justificar

2. Keep: guardar mention: mencionar
Mind: cuidaar postpone: postponer
Practise: practicar put off: aplazar
Resent: ofenderse Risk: arriesgar
Save: ahorrar Suggest: sugerir
Tolerate: tolerar
- Después de love, like, hate, enjoy, dislike para expresar una preferencia general.
- Si el verbo es utilizado como sujeto de una oración.
 Diference in meaning between the infinitive and -ing form
INFINITIVE -ING FORM
Forget + to infinitive: no recorder.
He forgot to post the letters.
Forget + - ing form. No recordar
(memorias del pasado) I will never forget
travelling around Japan.
Remember + to infinitive: no olvidar
Did you remember tolock the door?
Remember + -ing form: No recordar
(memorias del pasado9 I remember seeing
Ann at the meeting.
Mean + to infinitive: intención de. I am
sorry, I never meant to hurt your feelings.
Mean + -ing form: suponer. If I lose my
job, I am agraid it will mean moving to a
smaller flat.
Regret + to infinitive: estar arrepentido de
algo que se ha hecho. We regret to inform
you that you have failed your eams.
Regret + - ing form: estar arrepentido de
algo que ocurrio en el pasado. I regret
spending all that Money. I have got none
left.
Try + to infinitive: intentar hacer alguna
cosa mejor. She traed to tell you but you
weren´t listening.
Try –ing form: hacer algo como un
experimento. Why don´t you try adding
some salt’
Stop + to infinitive: parar temporalmente
en un orden que se sigan hacienda cosas.
They stopped to have lunch.
Stop –ing form: acabar de hacer algo. Will
you stop complainin all the time?
Need + to infinitive: necesitar.
I need to clean my shoes.
Need + -ing form: precisar de.
My shoes need cleaning.
Go on + to infinitve: hacer algo más para
pasar a la siguiente cosa.
The teacher introduced herself and went
on to explain about the course.
Go on + -ing form: continuar hacienda
algo.
The teacher told everyone to be quiet, but
they just went on talking.
Exercise: This time put the verb into the correct form, -ing or to + infinitive.
1. Do you mind (travel) such a long way to work every day?
2. Ann love (cook) but she hates (wash)up.
3. I can´t stand people (tell) me what to do when I am driving.
4. Idon´t like that house. I would hate (live) here.
5. Do you like (drive)?
6. When I have to catch a train, I am always worried about missing it. So I like
(get) to the station in plenty of time.
7. I very much enjoy (listen) to classical music.
8. I would love (come) to your wedding but it just isn´t possible.
9. Sometime I´d like (lean) to play the guitar.