Infinitives & Gerunds Study List

Verbs followed by Infinitives

agree to do decide to do offer to do tend to do
appear to do expect to do plan to do wait to do
ask to do hope to do pretend to do want to do
can afford to do intend to do refuse to do
claim to do need to do seem to do

allow (someone) to do It is (adjective) to do

convince (someone) to do It is (adjective) for (someone) to do
remind (someone) to do
teach (someone) to do

Verbs followed by Gerunds

admit doing deny doing practice doing recommend doing
avoid doing enjoy doing resent doing suggest doing
can’t help doing give up doing resist doing
consider doing miss doing

After prepositions, e.g., … Go + gerund expressions

talk about doing look forward to go dancing go bowling

be interested in doing go running go shopping
doing be/get used to doing go sailing go skiing

Verbs followed by a Gerund and a Noun + Infinitive

advise doing forbid doing urge doing

advise (someone) to do forbid (someone) to do urge (someone) to do
encourage doing require doing
encourage (someone) to do require (someone) to do

Both with no change in meaning

like doing love doing start doing begin doing

like to do love to do start to do begin to do

Both with a change in meaning

forget doing remember doing stop doing try doing
forget to do remember to do stop to do try to do

For Grammar Dimension 3 – Pettigrew