INFINITIVE VERBS + ING
1. VERBS + ING
Advise allow admit delay
Consider contemplate propose mind
Deny finish postpone forbid
Permit practise report prevent
Recommend resent suggest regret
1. 2.
Adore appreciate avoid cant bear
Cant help detest dislike enjoy
Fancy imagine involve mention
Miss resist understand
2. VERB + + ING
Catch discover feel find
Hear leave notice observe
See spot want watch
3. VERB + TO
Afford agree appear swear
Claim arrange attempt deserve
Decide demand force guarantee
Hope expect intend manage
Neglect prepare offer promise
Pretend refuse volunteer threaten
Yearn learn seem
3 . 4.
Choose dare expect help
Intend need want wish
4. VERB + + TO
Advise allow cause ask
Beg command compel encourage
Enable train forbid force
Get teach warn instruct
Invite leave oblige order
Permit persuade recommend remind
Request tell urge warn
Note: verb + for + + To
Arrange long yearn
Plan wait
Note: help + + bare
Help + + to
5. VERBS WITH ING/ TO
A) Likes and dislikes
to : Focus on the result
ing: enjoy an activity itself
Prefer to/ ing hate to/ing love to/ing enjoy to/ing like to /ing
B) Ing: general
To: good idea
Attempt begin loathe cease
Cant bear cant stand dont mind commence
Continue intend propose start
6. VERBS WITH DIFFERENT MEANING
Forget + ing- looking back. I do it, but I dont remember
Forget + to- looking forward. I didnt do it
Go on + ing- continue
Go on + to is the next step
Mean + ing involves a consequence
Mean + to intended
Remember + ing I did it in the past, after that I remember
2 1
Remember + to - I perform a routine
1 2
Stop + ing no longer do something
Stop + to change activity A in order to B
Try + ing experiment something new
Try + to make an effort
Regret + ing do something wrong and after that you feel sorry
Regret + to - inform in official statements about bad news
Saw + ing look only one part of a process
Saw + to look whole action or process
7. Sense verbs
Ing: describe an action in progress
To: describe a completed action
Feel hear notice see
Smell taste watch
REPORTING VERBS
8. VERBS + THAT
Add admit agree announce
Answer argue claim complain
Confess decide deny expect
Explain hope promise repeat
Swear threaten warn
9. Verbs + that + + should
Advise beg demand insist
Prefer propose recommend request
Suggest
VERB PREPOSITION PATTERNS
10. Verb + preposition + noun/ ing
a) No difference
Believe in aim for Pay for apologize for
dream of quarrel with resort to Confess to
comment on remarked on count on
object to / no objection to (n/adj)
b) With different meaning
agree on sth laugh about sth: involve you
agree with laugh at : involve others
care for sth : dont like hear about sth : it is new
care about : is important hear of : exist
shout at : in anger anxious for sth: feeling of want
shout to: difficult to hear anxious about : worried
Note : sorry for + bare
Suggest + bare
11.VERB + + PREPOSITION+
Discuss sth with
Explain sth with
Aim sth at
Save from sth
Blame for sth
Blame sth on
Present with sth
Present sth to
12.VERB + PREPOSITION + + PREPOSITION+
Agree with about sth
Disagree with about sth
Disagree with over sth
Quarrel with about sth
Quarrel with over sth
Apologize to for sth
Apologize to about sth
Complain to about sth
Rely on for sth
Note: Remind about sth
Warned about sth
Told about sth
Arrange about sth
13.VERB + + PREPOSITION + ING
Accuse of ing Discourage from ing
Suspect of ing Prevent from ing
Blame for ing Stop from ing
Advise against ing Ban from ing
14. VERB + PREPOSITION+ + ING
Depend on ing
Insist on ing
Rely on / sth ing
15.NOUN + PREPOSITION
Amazement at a target of
Anger about effect of
Anger at prospect of
Belief in increase in
Success in insistence on
Have a discussion about knack for
Have a fear of attention to
Key to risk of
Point in delay in
Point of
16.FEELINGS + PREPOSITION+ n/ing
Afraid of Be depend on
Annoyed about sth Depend on
Annoyed at/with Nervous about/ of
Excited about/ at/ by Proud of
Disappointed about/ at/ with/ sth Scared of
Disappointed in Sorry about sth
Keen on Sorry for ing
Be interested in sth Passion for
Take an interest in
