C1 - Verbs followed by infinitive and/or gerund

In this lesson we'll have to practise with this grammar issue. You can find thousands of lists of these Verbs and I recommend learning them by doing exercises but also by hearing in mind useful exemples.

The other difficulty is to remember that TO may be a preposition as well so in those cases TO is followed by gerund as in the example of the book and some more:

• I don't get round to phoning you yesterday
• I look forward to seeing you soon
• My sister objected to spending more money on that

This is a link which shows you this problem: click here

To finish with, remember that many verbs followed by gerund and infinitive are related to indirect speech: 

• Followed by gerund: suggest, recommend, propose, admit, deny, etc.
• Followed by infinitive: accept, promise, agree, revise, offer, etc.

Just in case you need some help, you can have this list and do these exercises to practise a bit:

• exercise 1 (easy, as a warming exercise)
• presentation about reported verbs
• a kind of rephrasing to see how to improve your writing
• another exercise and this one as well

See yuo in class!