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✴️Verbs that can be followed by either the "to-infinitive" or the "gerund" ➡️Some verbs can be followed by either the to-infinitive or the gerund, with some change in meaning. ••┈┈●•❁❁✹❁❁•●┈┈┈•• 1⃣REMEMBER ■I rememberedto give her the message. (=I remembered first and then I gave her the message.) ■I remembergiving her the message. (= I gave her the message and now I remember that I did that.) 2⃣FORGET ■I forgotto go to that meeting.(=I forgot and so I didn't go.) ■I forgetgoing to that meeting. (=I forget now that I went.) 2⃣TRY ■I tried to open the door but it was locked. (=I tried to do it, but I couldn't. The attempt failed.) ■I couldn't open the door so I tried using a different key. (="Try doing something" suggests an experiment. I experimented with using a different key. The result may have been a success or a failure.) 3⃣REGRET ■I regret to say that your interview was not successful. (=am sory to say.. . "Regret" is quite formal here.) ■I really regret being so rude to her. (=The speaker looks back to an action that took place in the past. The regretting takes place now.) 4⃣STOP ■We stopped to have a cup of tea. (=The "to-infinitive" describes purpose. It introduces the reason why we stopped.) ■We stopped talking when she came in. (=Talking is what we were doing. That is what we stopped doing.) 5⃣GO ON ■After an unsuccessful first year at university, he went on to get a first-class degree. ,(= "go on + to-infinitive" = move to something different.) ■We went on talking all night. (= "go on + gerund" = continue doing the same thing) 6⃣LIKE/ DISLIKE / LOVE/ HATE ■I like going for a run before work. (=l enjoy the activity of going for a run before work. I may or may not do it regularly.) ■I like to go for a run before work. (=Describes a regular activity. I like it because I think it's a good idea. I may or may not enjoy the activity while I am actually doing it.) 7⃣BEGIN/ START/ CONTINUE ■He began/started/continued shouting. ■He began/started/continued to shout. (=The meaning of these two sentences is very similar) 8⃣ADVISE/ ALLOW/ ENCOURAGE / FORBID / RECOMMEND ■They advised us to leave. ■They advised leaving. (=These verbs are usually followed by an object [name of a person or a personal pronoun] + to-infinitive. But if they have no object, they take a gerund.) 9⃣NEED ■I need to get up early tomorrow. (=It is necessary for me to do it. ■The car needs cleaning. ("Need + gerund" has a passive meaning. Someone needs to clean the car: it doesn't matter who does it.) ••┈┈●•❁❁✹❁❁•●┈┈┈•• #grammar @Learn_English_from_Zero_to_Hero