Gerunds and Infinitives

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Gerunds and Infinitives
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- Choose 1 verb from each group.- Make 1
sentence with that verb followed by another verb
complementation (in any form you feel suitable)

• Group 1 Want/ Decide/ Agree/ Choose
• Group 2Detest/ Enjoy/ Finish/ Miss
• Group 3Know/ Believe/ Think/ Wonder

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• Group 1 Want/ Decide/ Agree/ Choose-express
  future possibilities-an action in the future
  e.g. He wants to change her mind.
• Group 2 Detest/ Enjoy/ Finish/ Miss-express
  the established state of actionse.g. I miss
  walking in the forest.
• Group 3Know/ Believe/ Think/ Wonder -indicate
  mental states-the finite complements represents
  thoughts or propositionse.g. John knew that Mary
  was lying to him.

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Whats the difference?

• He forgot to take the medicine.
• He forgot taking the medicine.

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Some clearer cases

• You must remember to pay the bills.
• You must remember paying the bills.
• He stopped to buy magazines.
• He stopped buying magazines.
• We regret to say this.
• We regret saying that.

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Commitment Verbs--infinitive

• demand/ tell
• consent/ decline/ offer
• decide/ allow/ order/ convince
• command/ persuade/ permit
• 1. express commitment to future actions
• 2. act of commitment happens BEFORE action to be
  (or not to be) performed.

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• Self-directed commitment verb to-verbe.g. I
  decide to leave my husband.e.g. She offers to
  drive the car.
• Other-directed-commitment verb NP
  to-verbe.g. The teacher told him to stay
  behind.e.g. The doctor convinced him to try the
  treatment.-commitment verb for NP
  to-verbe.g. We arranged for him to leave at
  once.e.g. She longed for her boyfriend to return.

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Aspectual Verbs

• We started working just after dawn.
• We stopped working around noon.
• Then we continued working after lunch.(esp.
  after phrasal verbs)

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Sensory Perception Verbs

• see/ hear/ feel
• can take bare-infinitive or gerund.
• e.g. I saw you blink.
• e.g. I saw you blinking.

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• e.g. She saw him trip over the log. Seconds
  later she heard him cursing.
• e.g. In the dream she saw herself falling. Then
  suddenly she felt herself jerk awake.

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Try this

• Peter denied ______(go) to the party.
• Peter refused ______(go) to the party.