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. |