Gerunds and Infinitives

I like swimming

I want to eat pizza

I like playing basketball, but I want to learn how to play better.

GERUNDS INFINITIVES
Subject or object of a sentence: Swimming is fun. To explain why somebody does something: She runs to stay healthy.
After prepositions (in, on, about, before, after): She’s interested in dancing. Immediately after adjectives: It’s hard to wake up early.
After verbs of liking and disliking: They hate doing homework. After too, enough, the first, the last: He was the first to finish the test.
With go, to talk about physical activities: We go camping every summer.

Verbos de SENTIMIENTOS o ACTIVIDADES - ING

Verbos de INTENCIÓN o DECISIÓN - TO + VERB

They promised to help.

She plans to travel.

You need to study.

I’d like to eat ice cream.
He hates cleaning his room.

We started running.

I finished doing my homework.

Jerónimo-Valery's Lesson. Gerunds and Infinitives.

By Valentina Rodríguez Ramírez

Jerónimo-Valery's Lesson. Gerunds and Infinitives.

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