Verb + Ing
A. Stop enjoy fancy admit consider miss
Finish mind imagine deny involve postpone
Delay suggest regret avoid practice risk
If these verbs are followed by another verb, the structure is usually verb + -ing:
-Stop talking
-I’ll do shopping when I’ve finished cleaning the flat
-I don’t fancy going out this evening
-Have you ever considered going to live in another country?
-I can’t imagine George riding a motor bike
-When I’m on holiday, I enjoy not having to get up early
The following expressions also take –ing:
give up (=stop) put off (=postpone) keep or keep on (=do something
go on (=continue) carry on (=continue) continuously or repeatedly)
- Are you going to give up smoking?
- She kept (on) interrupting me while I was speaking
B. When you are talking about finished actions, you can also say having done/having stolen etc. But it is not necessary to use this form. You can also use the simple -ing form for finished actions:
-He admitted stealing (or having stolen) the money
-They now regret getting (or having got) married
1. In this exercise you have to complete the sentences with these verbs:
Try steal meet look write make be knocked
Wash play eat splash go drive take
Example: Do you fancy Playing tennis this afternoon?
- Could you please stop ………….so much noise?
- I don’t enjoy …………….letters
- Does your job involve ……………a lot of people?
- I considered …………………the job in the end I decided against it
- If you use the shower, try and avoid ………..water on the floor
- Jack gave up…………..to find a job in
- Have finished …………..your hair yet?
- The phone rang while Ann was having her dinner. She didn’t answer it.
- He admitted ………….the car but denied ………..it dangerously
- Why do you keep on …………at me like that?
- They had to postpone ………….away because their son was ill
- If you walk into the road without looking, you risk ………down by a car
INFINITIVE OR –ing? –Like, would like etc.
- Like hate enjoy can’t bear
Dislike love mind can’t stand
These verbs and expressions are often followed by –ing:
-I enjoy being alone -Ann hates flying
-Why do you dislike living here? - Tom doesn’t mind working at night
-I don’t like people shouting at me
After love and can’t bear being, you can use –ing or to + infinitive:
-I love meeting people or I live to meet people
-She can’t bear being alone or she can’t bear to be alone
- Like
Often it doesn’t matter whether you say ‘I like doing’ or ‘like to do’. For example, you can say:
-I like getting up early or I like to get up early
We usually say ‘I like doing’ when ‘like’ means enjoy’:
-Do you like cooking? (=Do you enjoy it?)
-I don’t like driving (=I don’t enjoy it)
When ‘like’ does not mean ‘enjoy’, we use ‘I like to do’. I like to do something = I find it is good or right to do something:
-I like to wash my hair twice a week. (This doesn’t mean that I enjoy it; it means that I think it is a good thing to do)
-Tom likes to do the washing-up immediately after the meal
C. Would like is followed by to + infinitive:
-I would like to be rich
-Would you like to come to a party?
Notice the difference in meaning between I like and I would like. I would like is a polite way of saying I want. Compare:
-I like playing tennis (I enjoy it in general)
-I would like to play tennis today (=I want to play)
We also use to + infinitive after would love/hate/prefer:
-Would you prefer to have dinner now or later?
-I’d love to be able to travel round the world
D. You can also say ‘I would like to have done something’ (I regret that I didn’t or couldn’t do something):
-It’s a pity we didn’t visit Tom. I would like to have seen him again
-We’d like to have gone on holiday but we didn’t have enough money
Study these examples:
- Our holiday was too short-the time went quickly.
- The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident.
Quickly and seriously are adverbs. Many adverbs are made from an adjective + -ly:
Adjective : quick, serious, careful, quiet, heavy, bad
Adverb : quickly seriously carefully quietly heavily badly
Not all words ending in –ly are adverbs. Some adjectives end in –ly too. For example:
Friendly lively elderly lonely silly lovely
Adjective or Adverbs?
An adjective tells us more about a verb a noun. We use adjective before nouns and after a few verbs (especially be)
- Tom is Careful driver
- Be quiet, please
- We didn’t go out because of the heavy rain
- I was disappointed that may exam results were so bad
An adverb tells us more about a verb. An adverb tell us in what way someone does something or in what way something happens:
- Tom drove carefully along the narrow road ( not “drove careful”)
- Speak Quietly, please (not Speak quiet)
- We didn’t go out because it was raining heavily. (not “raining heavily”)
- I was disappointed that I did so badly in the exam. (not Did so bad”)
Compare: she speaks perfect English ( adjective + Noun)
She speaks English perfectly ( Verb + Object + Adverb)
We also use adverbs before adjectives and other adverbs. For example:
Reasonably cheap ( Adverb + Adjective)
Terribly ( Adverb + Adjective)
Incredibly quickly ( Adverb + Adverb)
- It is a reasonably cheap restaurant and the food is extremely good
- Oh, I am terrible sorry. I didn’t mean to push you
- Maria learns language incredible quickly.
- I was bitterly disappointed that I didn’t get the job
- The examination was surprisingly easy
You can use an adverb before a past participle (injured/organized etc):
- The meeting was very badly organized
- The driver of the car was seriously injured in the accident
- The building was totally destroyed in the fire.
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