Back to Other Grammar Rules. Gerunds function as nouns. Thus, gerunds will be subjects, subject complements, direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. Some verbs can be followed by a gerund or by an infinitive. When this is the case, the meaning of the two will be identical for some verbs, but different for others. PREPOSIONAL EXPRESSIONS VERBS FOLLOWED BY IT + INFINITIVE OR A FOLLOWED BY GERUNDS GERUNDS OR INFINITIVES GERUND SUBJECT be accused of V-ing admit to V/V-ing mind be a bad experience be accustomed to advise need be a bad idea in addition to afford offer be better be afraid agree permit be clever apologize (to someone) for ask persuade be Negative Infinitive Examples. “I’m happy not to go out tonight.”. “I’d like not to work so much.”. “She always tries not to go to sleep too late.”. “It’s important for him not to waste too much time on his phone.”. “They find it easy not to get distracted while working.”. 3. Infinitives can be made negative by adding "not." Ex/ I decided not to go. The most important thing is not to give up. Both gerunds and infinitives can be used as the. subject or the complement of a sentence. However, as subjects or complements, gerunds usually sound. more like normal, spoken English, whereas. An infinitive is made up of the word 'to' + the simple form of the verb. The infinitive is classified as a verbal; meaning that it indicates an action or a state. Here are some examples of Playing football is fun. I dislike being away from my family. Dreaming is my hobby during the long winter holidays. It takes me a long time to sort over my thoughts before I can start writing. Watching sport gave him great pleasure. He was embarrassed to admit making a mistake. I love playing soccer. vsLaB.

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