Инфинитив -ing форма глагола

-ing form

Use after verbs

• Admit, appreciate, avoid, consider, continue, deny, fancy, go (for activities), imagine, mind, miss, practise, prevent, quit, save, suggest, mind;

• spend, waste, lose.

Use after phrases

• Be busy, it’s no use, it’s no good, it’s (not) worth, what’s the use of, can’t help, there’s no point in, can’t stand, have difficulty in, have trouble;

• Look forward to, be/get used to, in addition to, object to

Use after prepositions (on, at etc)

Infinitive with to

Use after verbs

• Agree, appear, decide, expect, hope, plan, promise, refuse, want;

• Would like, would prefer, would love.

Use after adjectives

• Happy, glad, sad, eager, reluctant, willing, clever, kind, lucky, fortunate etc;

• after too/ enough;

• Be first/ second/next/last;

• To tell you the truth;

• To be honest;

• To sum up;

• To begin with;

Zero Infinitive

Use after

• Modal verbs;

• Let, make, see, hear, feel;

• Had better, would rather