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Gerund vs. Infinitive

Dear students and teachers: Please make sure you subscribe to the free grammar updates here. Board game for speaking practice with gerunds and infinitives. Twenty-three squares with cues for personal experiences etc including more advanced structures - passive gerund, passive infinitive, perfect infinitive, possessive + gerund ('I hope you don't mind my asking'). Gerund Examples. Gerunds can appear at the beginning of a sentence when used as a subject: Jogging is a hobby of mine. Gerunds can act as an object following the verb: Daniel quit smoking a year ago. Gerunds can serve as an object after a preposition: I look forward to helping you paint the house.

In English, we use the verb form ending in -ing quite often without distinguishingbetween the use cases. This makes it difficult when we switch to Spanish, since wenow must make that distinction.

In Spanish, we have to distinguish between using el gerundio and el infinitive,the gerund and the infinitive forms.Fortunately, there are a few simple tricks I will show you to determine if you aredealing with the infinitive, and if not, then use the gerund.

Gerunds

The gerund has three uses:

• Progressive. Use the gerund with the verb estar to denote a continuing action, such as estoy leyendo, or 'I am reading.' Note that Spanish-learners tend to over-use the progressive tense (as in, they use it more than a native would). You really want to reserve this for when it is important that the action is in progress (or was in progress if using the past continuous tenses).

• Adverb. Is your word, e.g., 'walking', 'talking', 'laughing', describing how an action is being done? If so, then its an adverb, and you use the gerund. Pasamos el día riendo. 'We spend the day laughing.' How did we spend the day? Laughing. Adverb.

• Continuous action. Similar to the first case, here we use the gerund with one of a few particular verbs, andar, ir, seguir, and venir, to express ongoing action. Seguí estudiando. → 'I kept on studying.'

Infinitive

There are two main cases when you would want to use the infinitive and not the gerund.

• Noun. If the word is a noun in the sentence, then use the infinitive. Here is the pro-top: If you can replace the -ing form in English with the infinitive 'to + ', then it is a noun and you want to use the infinitive. Here's a famous example: 'Seeing is believing.' Gerund or infinitive? Well, you can substitute 'To see is to believe.' and the sentence still works, so it is Ver es creer. Easy, right?

• Adjective. Rather than an adverb, if the word is describing a noun, it is an adjective and you want to use the infinitive. For example, 'reading group' is NOT 'el grupo leyendo', but rather 'el grupo de leer'. The tip here is if the word comes after a preposition, or could come after a preposition (like de + ..), then use the infinitive. 'We will leave after eating', 'Vamos a salir después de comer.'

Swords & souls: neverseen for mac. Fortunately, that's pretty much it, and with these two simple rules you can figure out when touse an infinitive in the confusing cases, everything else is a gerund.

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