Showing posts with label Gerunds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gerunds. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Grammar: Gerunds or Infinitives

Some people get very frightened by grammar. Let's look at gerunds and infinitives.

All verbs have a base form. For example: write, read, swim

We add to if we want to make infinitives

to write, to read, to swim

We add ing if we want to make gerunds. Remember the spelling rules for verb + ing

writing, reading, swimming

Sometimes we want to use two verbs together. The second verb is often a gerund or an infinitive. Which do you use?