Low Intermediate Easy ESOL blog: On the turning away (Difficult content for former students)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Turning in this song is a gerund. A gerund is the ing form of a verb when we use it as a noun.

(Verbs are usually action words. Nouns are people, places, things or ideas)

Swimming is fun. Running makes me tired. Fighting doesn't solve anything. Crying helps.

A difficult goal in advanced ESOL classes is memorizing whether a verb can be followed by a gerund, an infinitive (to ____base verb) or both.

I like to swim./I like swimming are equally correct.

I enjoy swimming is correct. I enjoy ~~to swim~~ is wrong.

I want to go is correct. I want going is wrong.

(The sound of the word after the verb is what you need to remember.

Ing is for gerunds. To is for infinitives)