Gerunds and infinitives
1) After some main verbs (let,make, hear, see,
watch, feel, notice, help...)
In passive sentences make, hear, help are
followed by an infinitive with to!
Let > allowed in passive sentence
My parents let me stay out late.
I am allowed to stay out late by my parents.
2) After modal verbs (can, could, may, must, shall,
should, will, would)
3) After would rather/had better (You'd better come
in now.)
1) Can't bear/stand, like, hate, love, prefere
Used with infinitive more specifical situation
with gerund more general situation
2) Remember, forget
+ ing an action that happened before the
moment of remembering/forgetting
+ infinitive an action after the moment of
remembering/forgetting
3) Regret
+ ing means be sorry about the action in the
past
+ infinitive means be sorry about the present
action
4) Stop
+ ing to stop something you do
+ infinitive with to means stop in order to do
something
5) Try