📄️ Introduction
Verb + verb
📄️ Infinitives after verbs: *It’s beginning to rain.*
After many non-auxiliary verbs, we can use the infinitives of other verbs.
📄️ Verb + object + infinitive: *I want you to listen.*
Many verbs are followed by object + infinitive.
📄️ *try and …*, *go and …*, etc
try / be sure / wait and …
📄️ -ing forms after verbs: *I enjoy travelling.*
Verbs that can be followed by -ing forms
📄️ Infinitives after adjectives: pleased to see you
Reactions and feelings: pleased to see you
📄️ Infinitives after nouns and pronouns: *my decision to leave*
Nouns related to verbs: no wish to change
📄️ -ing forms after nouns and adjectives: *tired of listening*
the idea of getting old; tired of listening
📄️ -ing forms after prepositions: *without breaking eggs*
After all prepositions
📄️ Infinitives or -ing forms: both possible with different uses
Some verbs and adjectives can be followed by either \-ing forms or infinitives (see here).
📄️ Active and passive infinitive with similar meaning
Obligation
📄️ Causative structures with *make*
Object + infinitive
📄️ Causative and similar structures with *get*
Causative: Don’t get him talking.
📄️ Causative and similar structures with *have*
Have can be followed by object + infinitive (without to), object + \-ing, and object + past participle.
📄️ Hear, see, etc + object + verb form
I heard him go/going.