Verbos que rigen TO o -ING

Verb + ing

stop, enjoy, fancy, admit, consider, miss, finish, mind, imagine, deny, involve, postpone, delay, suggest, regret, avoid, risk, practise, give up, put off, keep on, go on ( continue), carry on.

E.g. are you going to give up smoking?

Verb + infinitive

Agree, offer, decide, appear, forget, refuse, attempt, plan, seem, learn, promise, manage, arrange, pretend, dare, threaten, fail, hope, afford, tend, take.

E.g. He dedided to take a taxi home.

Verb + object + infinitive

Want, ask, expect, help, mean, would like, would prefer.

E.g. I asked to see the manager or

I asked tom to help me.

Verb + object + to + infinitive

Tell, remind, force, enable, persuade, order, warn, invite, teach, get.

Make and let: verbs + infinitive without to.

Eg. Hot weather makes me feel uncomfortable.

Like, dislike, hate, enjoy, can't bear, can't stand, love, mind = ing.

Eg. I like running

Prepositions + ing

Interested in learning

Not very good at learning.

I am fed up with studying....

Excited about going....

Of having...

In spite of feeling....

Instead of going......

Before/ after + ing or without ing

Eg. Before going out.... Or before i went out.

Without + ing

E.g. tom left without finishing his drink.

Verb + preposition + ing

Succeed in, feel like, think about/of, dream of, approve or dissaprove of, look forward to, insist on, decide against, apologise for.

E.g. I look forward to hearing from you.

Verb + object +preposition+ing

Accuse, suspect, congratulate, prevent, stop, thank, forgive, warn.

Expressions with ing

It is no use/ it is no good trying to persuade me.

There is no point in....

It is not worth reading that book.

Have difficulty in finding a place.

A waste of money/time....

Spend/waste time.....

Go shopping, swimming, skiing, fishing, climbling, sailing...