Learners often find it hard to decide when to use gerunds versus infinitives and to identify gerunds in sentences. Their similarity to present participles adds to the confusion. Focused practice, ...

Gerunds are the -ing form of a verb, and infinitives are the to + base form. These words can be confusing; they combine the meaning of a verb with the grammar of a noun. My father asked me to phone ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...