Use of gerund and infinitive

1. GERUND AND
INFINITIVE

2. STUDENTS:
Susana Calzada Pérez
Kaimorts Hazel Córdova Palma
Noemi S. Encino Reguero
Sara Gpe. García Castillejos
Erick Manuel Chable Álvarez
Guadalupe Garcia Amezquita
TEACHER:
Lic. Laura Falconi Alejandro
English 8
Degree in Physical Therapy 8° “A”
Wednesday, February 22th, 2017

3. WHAT IS A GERUND?
A gerund is a verb in its ing (present participle) form that functions as a
noun that names an activity rather than a person or thing. Any action verb
can be made into a gerund.
Always has the same functions as the
subject, despite being a verb
Hunting tigers is dangerous.
Brushing your teeth is important.
Smoking causes lung cancer.
Flying makes me nervous.

4. GERUND: FORM

5. GERUND AS SUBJECT

6. BE CAREFUL!

7. USES: THE GERUND
 We use the gerund:

8. USES: THE GERUND
Verbs followed by gerunds
Avoid Miss
Deny Practice
Disike Remember
Enjoy Risk
Finish Stop
Keep Suggest
I suggested going to the cinema
(Propuse ir al cine)

9. USES: THE GERUND
 In some expressions:
 Feel like
 It´s no use
 Get used to / Be used to
 Can´t stand
 Can´t help
 Don´t mind
I don´t mind cleaning my room

10.  Gerunds are used after prepositions.
USES: THE GERUND
verb + preposition + V-ing.
o He can’t talk about her without crying.
o Thanks for helping me.
o Let’s thing about moving to Kfar Saba.
o She prefers driving to taking the bus

11. USES: THE GERUND
A Gerund is used after these propositions
In From
Without By
For After/Before
Of About
On At
Against To
Thanks for helping me.

12. USES: THE GERUND
 Gerunds with go

13. WHAT IS THE INFINITIVE?
An infinitive is a verb form that acts as other parts of speech in a sentence.
Jim always forgets to eat

14. INFINTIVE: FORM

15. USES: THE INFINITIVE

16. USES: THE INFINITIVE
 After some verbs, such as:
Want Choose
Wish Decide
Hope Learn
Agree Plan
Appear Promise
Seem Refuse
I want to travel around the country next year

17. USES: THE INFINITIVE
 To express a purpose
I got up early to do homework.
I have some letters to write.

18.  The infinitives can also follow certain nouns.
USES: THE INFINITIVE
Nouns + infinitives
o It’s a high price to pay.
o It’s time to take a break.
o He made a decision to take up
extra subjects.

19. USES: THE INFINITIVE
 After some adjectives and adverbs
 Happy to
 Slowly to
I´m happy to be here
He ran too slowly to win

20.  Verbs related to perception: HEAR, FEEL, SEE
 MAKE / LET are followed by infinitive without to
USES: THE INFINITIVE
I saw Eric leave the office
Their parents make them clean their room

21. GERUND AND INFINITIVE
Some verbs (love, hate, start, prefer) can take gerund or infinitive, with
similar meanings:
Examples:
o I love to eat chocolates.
o I love eating chocolates.
o I started to polish the car, but then decided not to.
o I started polishing the car, but then decided not to.

22. BE CAREFUL!
A few verbs (such as ‘stop’, ‘remember’ and ‘forget’) can be followed by
either the gerund or the infinitive but the meanings are different.
o They stopped having lunch at the restaurant.
(They don’t eat at the restaurant anymore)
o They stopped to have lunch at the restaurant.
(They stopped another activity in order to have lunch at the restaurant)

23. GERUND AND INFINITIVE
 Verbs with a change of meaning
Remember gerund = It refers to something past
Remember infinitive = It refers to the future
I remember meeting him at a party
I remembered to close the window

24. GERUND AND INFINITIVE
 Verbs with a change of meaning
Forget gerund = Indicates that we have forgotten that
something happened
Forget infinitive = It means forgetting to do something
I forgot seeing him at a party
I forgot to close the door