HOW TO AVOID MISTAKES IN ENGLISH – enjoy ‘to play’ or ‘playing’? 🤔

HOW TO AVOID MISTAKES IN ENGLISH – enjoy ‘to play’ or ‘playing’? 🤔
Enjoy to play or enjoy playing?

In English mistakes are often made by using the infinitive when other forms of the verb should be used. This is one example…

We use the gerund (V+ING) after certain verbs. Enjoy is one of those verbs and we never use to+ V1. These are some other examples.

You can’t avoid making mistakes.

I hate going to the dentist.

Do you like watching TV?

DANGER! For the verb like we use V+ING to say that we like things in general.

I like walking.

But sometimes we use like + to + V1 to add emphasis if we prefer something.

I like to walk to work.

Let’s look at the rules for using the gerund (verb ending in ‘ing’) instead of the infinitive (to + verb)

  1. After prepositions. – He worked without stopping.
  2. After words which regularly take a preposition, such as fond of, insist on, tired of, succeed in. – He succeeded in catching the rat.
  3. After certain verbs, such as avoid, enjoy, finish, stop, risk, excuse. – They enjoy playing football.
  4. After the adjectives busy and worth.Lena was busy writing a book. This date is worth remembering.
  5. After certain phrases, such as it’s no use, it’s no good, I can’t help, would you mind, look forward to I think it’s no use trying again. I can’t help feeling angry about it.
  6. DANGER!!! You can use both the gerund or the infinitive after certain verbs, such as begin, like, dislike, hate, love, prefer. – He began to talk or He began talking.

Now what you were looking for….

The correct answer was… B

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