@LearnbyEnglishlearners ✅ing form or infinitive? 📕Some adjectives and verbs can be followed by either a gerund (-ing form)or an infinitive. ✅I started teaching when I was 20. OR I started to teach when I was 20. @LearnbyEnglishlearners ✅She was proud of having won. OR She was proud to have won. ✅Notes In some cases there is a difference meaning. 👉Remember / forget + -ing 📕Remember and forget are usually followed by -ing forms in the structures ‘I will never forget…ing’ or ‘I will always remember …ing’. ✅I will never forget winning my first national award. ✅I still remember buying my first car. ✅When remember or forget  is followed by an infinitive, it usually refers to things one has or had to do at the moment of speaking. 📘I forgot to post the letter. (NOT I forgot posting the letter.) @LearnbyEnglishlearners ✅Remember to call me when you arrive. 👉Go on 📕When go on is followed by an -ing form, it means ‘continue’. ✅He went on talking about his exploits until I went to sleep. 👉Regret + -ing form 📕Regret is followed by an -ing form when it refers back to the past. ✅I regret quitting my job –it was a stupid thing to do. 📕Regret + infinitive is usually used in announcements of bad news. ✅We regret to say that we cannot help you at the moment. 👉Advise, allow, permit and forbid ✅The verbs advise, allow, permit and forbid are followed by -ing forms if there is no object. If there is an object, we use aninfinitive. ✅Compare: 📕We don’t allow / permit smoking in the kitchen. 📘We don’t allow / permit people to smoke in the kitchen. @LearnbyEnglishlearners #Infinitive_gerund #grammar