hi everybody and welcome back to love English I'm Sabrah and I'm a British
University English teacher now today I have a grammar lesson for you a little
bit more of a serious topic but super super useful and this is suitable for
intermediate up to advanced level
so in this class today we're going to look at the rules for gerunds and
infinitives and also the cases where we can actually use either a gerund or
infinitive so a verb that can be followed by both however how this
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you like it right let's get started the rules of gerunds and infinitives so
first of all what actually is a gerund a gerund is a verb that can actually
behave like a noun so it's a bit of a double act if you like it can be two
things now let me show you an example I like to dance I like to dance here dance
is a verb I is the subject however if we say dancing is good for you dancing is
good for you here dancing has actually become the subject of this sentence
therefore making this verb here act like a noun it is behaving like a noun which
means it is a gerund so in sentences where a verb actually
behaves like a noun where it becomes the subject of the sentence you need to add
that ing form, other examples are taking the train was the quickest way to arrive
or seeing is believing in both cases here the verb is behaving like a noun
which makes it a gerund now some verbs must be followed by
gerunds and some must be followed by infinitives now verbs which must be
followed by a gerund include enjoy suggest miss finish can't stand avoid
admit complete imagine repeat risk they must be followed by a
gerund for example I don't want to risk losing all my money I can't stand being
told off I finished doing all my grammar exercises now a very helpful rule when
it comes to the gerund is that if you have a preposition in the sentence often
connected to a verb then that preposition must be followed by a gerund
I look forward to seeing you soon to is a preposition so we need that gerund
another example would be she succeeded in passing her IELTS Leila is good at
teaching grammar, remember that rule goes if you're using a verb after a
preposition it should be in the gerund form not the infinitive okay so moving
on to looking at infinitives let's do a quick explanation of what an infinitive
is so an infinitive is the verb in its base form so for example it's present
simple form plus to for example to go you can also have a bare infinitive which is
the infinitive without to so some examples of verbs which need to be
followed by infinitives are agree aim attempt want offer wish be able choose
hope and there are many more so again check that list below for example you
could say I hope to travel the world next year or I hope to be fluent in
English by next year if you change this and use a gerund it sounds really bad so
if you say I hope traveling the world next year it sounds it sounds so wrong
so make sure you actually learn these and learn which verbs are followed by a
gerund or an infinitive there are also some verbs which actually need an object
and then the infinitive as we need something that the action is happening
to so this is quite common in reported speech for example this doesn't mean
that the verb always needs an object but in some cases where we need something
that the action is happening to then you will need an object with that infinitive
for example with the verb advised your usually advising someone to do something so we
need to say I advised her or I advised him or she advised me and then the
infinitive some other examples of these verbs are remind ask invite expect for
example I needed to remind myself to stop eating so much junk food or he
invited me to go for dinner I asked him to make the dinner reservation again
you'll find a list below of the verbs that need an object plus an infinitive
okay now moving on to some of the verbs which can take either the gerund or the
infinitive but the meaning changes so unfortunately I don't have time to do
all of these verbs today but I can always make a part 2 of this video
because I have a feeling that some of you guys are going to have some
questions and there are some other rules to cover as well so don't worry that we
haven't covered them all I'm covering really today the most common ones so
today we're looking at stop remember forget and try okay so with the
verb to stop if you stop to do something you have stopped your previous activity
to do another activity so for example you could say I stopped to answer the
phone meaning you stopped working or you
stopped gardening or whatever you were doing to answer the phone if you say you
stopped doing something you stopped doing this activity altogether for a
while maybe you have suspended during this activity so you've stopped doing
this activity maybe for an extended period of time or maybe for a short time
but you're not doing that activity at the moment for example if you say I've
stopped working late at night it means at the moment you're not working late at
night let's look at two sentences and compare the differences I stopped to do
some shopping I stopped to do some shopping I've
stopped shopping I was spending too much money
oops I really need to stop going shopping so hopefully guys you can clear
see the difference stop to do is when we stop our current activity to do another
activity can be that we were interrupted for example and stop doing we're not
doing that activity for a while we're definitely not doing it at the moment
okay the next one is remember so if you remember doing something you have the
memory of it so remember + gerund is that you have
the memory of it or maybe you don't have the memory of it it's for example but
it's connected to your memories remember to do is when you need to do something
for example and must remember to make a doctor's appointment you want to
remember and you need to remember to do that thing so it's more like a reminder
of something that you have to do let's look at two sentences again and compare
the differences I remember visiting my grandma so here we're remembering why I
remember visiting my grandma when I was younger she was always feeding me lots
of nice food now let's look at this with the infinitive I remembered to visit my
grandma here we're saying I needed to remember to go and see her to go and
visit my grandma it was something I needed to do and I remembered it I
remembered to do that the verb to forget works in a similar way if you say to
forget with a gerund you're talking about your memories if you say forget
with an infinitive you're talking about something that you needed to do that
you've actually forgotten or you might be reminding yourself not to forget to
do that thing so again it's something that we ought to do again let's look at
two sentences and compare the difference I've forgot to study for my IELTS last
night I forgot to study for my IELTS last night you needed to remember to
study but you forgot to oh I've forgotten studying like this for IELTS
it's been such a long time so here the person is saying they'd forgotten what
it was like to study for their IELTS so they've forgotten that experience so
again it's about memory to forget doing something means you don't have a memory
of doing that thing okay the last one is the verb to try if you put try with an
infinitive this is something that you're putting effort in
- so you're really trying but your success is mixed sometimes it works
sometimes it doesn't so if you say I tried to open that jar
but I couldn't it was stuck you're saying that you tried you put effort
into it but you didn't succeed or if we say I tried to work out every morning
you're saying this is something I put effort into I try to work out every
morning maybe I don't always do it but I'm
really trying to do that so when we use try with a gerund it's more of an
experiment it's something that you're testing or seeing if you like it or
seeing if it works so for example you might say try adding salt to the dish it
might taste nicer if you try adding salt it's an experiment let's look at two
sentences and compare the difference have you tried going to dance classes I
try to go to my dance class every week I try to go to my dance class every week
so in the first one the person is saying you should try this thing it's an
experiment have you tried going to dance classes in the second sentence with the
infinitive the speaker puts effort into trying to get to their dance class every
week now a little bit of homework guys is to try writing, see..an experiment some
of those sentences below so for example try writing one with an infinitive and
one with a gerund and compare the difference and I will check them and see
if they are correct you can actually write a sentence below using any of the
gerunds and infinitives that we've learnt in this lesson but do make sure
you leave those sentences in the comments below do let me know guys if
you would like a part two on this to cover some other things that we haven't
covered in this lesson and perhaps I can also use it to answer your question so
do let me know about that as well as always guys it's a pleasure to be here
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