Hello and welcome to this English lesson my name is Stuart in today's lesson
we're looking at when we use infinitives without - let's go to the intro now as I
said before we're looking today at using infinitives without - this is also known
as bare infinitives okay because you know that you can use infinitive
structures with - you can use it without - you can use verb + gerund these are
all different verb patterns this one is the infinitive structure without - now
I'm going to show you one two three four of the common times that we use
infinitives without - and we're going to start with the most common ones and
we'll go down to some of the more difficult times as well okay so the
first one is after modal's now I hear all the time students using modal verbs
with - but the fact of the matter is that we don't use - with modal's so if
we use a modal auxiliary verb like we'll shell should can could may might must
etc we don't use - there is an exception and that is ought or - I ought to call
my mother but that is an exception and it's the
only time the rest okay and not used with - let's have a look at these
examples I must visit my mother I must visit my mother not I'm asked to not I
must - I hear it all the time people saying I must to visit my mother
take out the - we don't need it second example you should tell her how you feel
you should tell her not should to tell ok again should infinitive no -
next example if we don't hurry we might miss our flight or we may miss our
flight again no - so modal's after modal's we
don't use the to infinitive structure the second example is after certain
verbs like see hear feel watch etc another one could be let and we'll have
a look at that now as well for example I saw them steal the car
I saw them steal the car I heard you close the window and we don't let the
children stay up late so in these examples there's no - now the structure
here is a verb object verb or infinitive without to okay so when we have the
object in between we don't normally use the to structure with these verbs a
common it's also common to hear I saw them stealing the car okay or I heard
you closing the window that's an alternative structure that we can use in
order to avoid the without - structure now the third example is after and or
except but then as or like now this is more difficult to remember but look at
the two examples and we'll see if it makes sense okay the first one do you
want to come with me or stay at home do you want to come with me or stay at home
we wouldn't say do you want to come with me or to stay at home so after all no -
second example I'd prefer to do something else like visit clients okay I
prefer to do something else like visit clients not like to visit clients okay
another example with except she's willing to do anything except answer the
phone so you have a lady in your office who's a good worker she does anything
except answer the phone she's not willing to
answer the phone so she'll do any job except answer the phone no to and the
third example is after why and why not examples why call if you can email or
why not try doing it yourself okay why not try doing it yourself so we wouldn't
say why to call or why not to call okay so why call if you can email one why not
try doing it your self okay now thank you very much for watching the lesson
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