How to Remember Which Verbs are Followed by Gerunds and Which Verbs are Followed by Infinitives

What's the difference between LIKE TO VERB and LIKE VERBING?

In this video, I talk about gerunds, infinitives, and how you can remember which verbs are followed by gerund and which verbs are followed by infinitives.

I'm Teacher Mike, and I'm an English teacher from the United States. I have also worked as a communication quality manager in a five-star hotel and as a communication coach at a company that trains Japanese business professionals in the communication skills that they need to succeed on international teams.

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[alejandrinaestradaguzman]

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[claudiapilarpabonopsina]

Hello Teacher Mike, thank you
Those examples are excellent…it helps me a lot. Enjoy the rest of your day .🙏

[rociomeza]

Thank you for this video, I will see again 😊

[evelynquinonez]

I love to swim at the beach.
I love swimming at the beach.
Swimming at the beach is fun.
Listening to music makes me happier.
I decided to stop eating unhealthy food.
She avoids laughing at people for no reason.
I want to buy a new tablet.
My Dad needs to make a deposit at the bank.
Thanks a lot for your nice lesson, Mike.😊😊

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[annanano]

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[mariamyaka]

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2) I truly appreciate watching your videos.
Thanks for sharing 👍

[vankhoanguyen]

I enjoy reading and listening to music. I try to avoid driving too fast. I want to swim every day. She goes shopping twice a month. I like to buy some books for my brother's birthday. Thank you very much, Mike. ❤

[jhangirdada]

I wish I could speak like you or I were you, but most of the time I mimic you while I teach my primary level students. Though our native language is Pashto and the course medium is Urdu, but I love to teach in English, because my students want to learn a little bit about English.

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[apsararana]

You are my best teacher forever😊but A long time ago, the quality of your videos used to low So I used to not like to watch it but now I always watch it because the quality of the video is excellent 😊❤

[witoldmaj]

I suggest watching videos about such topics.

[Misa]

Hi Mike! I wanna know what is the Sounds difference between: sold and solid ! Thanks for reading me ! 🙏❤

[jayvidanage]

Hello teacher Mike! I am a new to your channel so I want to know that my way is right or wrong. I hear some words clearly but I can't understand some places .Is it normal? So what should I do for that?

[lauraflores]

Thank you so much !, I really needed this video, it's hard for me comprender esto

[rstrelba]

I came up with a rule which covers 90% cases to use gerund or infinitive. If second verb in a bunch has chance to *start* (it is important, exactly start) - use infinitive. For example. I want to eat, I decided to eat. If no- your choise is the gerund. I pause eating, I like eating, I prefer eating, I resume eating. Even example with verb stop is covered by this rule. I stop eating. When I was eating my meat I stopped to drink beer.

[satratey]

Thank you Sir,

Your teaching style is excellent and easy to understand even for a beginner English learner. As I see you notice every comments as far as possible therefore I want to clear my confusion about English grammar. Although it is off - topic, yet I want to ask.

I am working in a company where it is routine practice to make a point wise shift report of all the activities we do in a whole shift. Most of my colleagues write the report as follows and I think it is gramatically incorrect, and please provide me more alternative ways to write a point wise report as I wrote below.

For example -

Following activities have been completed in night shift.

1. "Admin Building round taken" or "Took round the Admin Building". Which one is correct. Here, "Took round" I mean to go to the building to check whether everything is ok or not.

2. "Filters cleaned as per schedule." or "Cleaned the filters as per schedule".

In both these sentences, I don't want to mention doer (Subject), and should I write these type sentences in past simple or in present perfect tense? I would be grateful to you for your guidance.

[guermahfatiha]

I avoid talking to strangers
He decided to quit the job.
I enjoy commenting and writing examples 🎉🎉🎉🙏

[Sapito-nddf]

I won't stop watching your videos, Mike.
I stopped to buy water and food.😊

[aswathysabu]

Sir... Could you plz check this sentence 👇
"Running on the beach, the waves crashed against the shore, creating a soothing rhythm that matched the cadence of his footsteps."

This sentence👆 was given in an error detection question.. & the answer is given as we should use a word as noun in first part of the setnce as the sentence start with
"H̲e̲ running on the

But i dont think as we should use a noun on the first part... It didnt make sense from my view🤔
Could you plz guide me

[freddyli]

I avoid gaining weight, so I decide to eat less.