Verb + "-ing"

Verb + "-ing"

1. Verbos seguidos normalmente de "-ing"

   • Admit - Avoid - Consider - Deny - Enjoy
     • Admitir  - Evitar - Considerar - Negar - Disfrutar
   • Fancy - Finish - Imagine - Keep (on) - Mind
     • Tener ganas - Terminar - Imaginar - Seguir - Importar
   • Postpone - Risk - Stop - Suggest
     • Posponer - Arriesgar - Parar - Sugerir

2. Some verbs can be followed by "-ing" with different meanings

   • REMEMBER
     • Remember having done something after having done it

3. Some verbs can be followed by "-ing" - meanings

   • REMEMBER
     • I remember doing something
       • Recuerdas algo después de haberlo hecho
     • I remember to do something
       • Recuerdas hacer algo antes de haberlo hecho
   • REGRET
     • Lamentar
     • I regret doing something
       • Lamento haber hecho algo después de hacerlo
   • GO ON
     • Continuar con algo
     • Always with "-ing"
       • Aunque lo podemos ver con "to"

4. the following verbs can go followed by -ing" without changing the meaning

   • Begin
     • Comenzar
   • Bother
     • Molestar
   • Start
     • Empezar
   • Continue
     • Continuar
   • Intend
     • Tener la intención de
   • Normally, "-ing" is not used after "-ing"
     • It's starting to rain SÍ It's starting raining NO

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