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VERBS + INFINITIVE or GERUND We use gerunds (verb + ing):    After certain verbs - I enjoy singing After preposition

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VERBS + INFINITIVE or GERUND We use gerunds (verb + ing):   

After certain verbs - I enjoy singing After prepositions - I drank a cup of coffee before leaving As the subject or object of a sentence - Swimming is good exercise We use 'to' + infinitive:

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After certain verbs - We decided to leave After many adjectives - It's difficult to get up early - I came to London to study English We use the bare infinitive (the infinitive without 'to'):

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After modal verbs - I can meet you at six o'clock After 'let', 'make' and (sometimes) 'help' - The teacher let us leave early After some verbs of perception (see, watch, hear, notice, feel, sense) - I watched her walk away After expressions with 'why' - why go out the night before an exam?