TENSE TUESDAY: STOP -ING OR INFINITIVE
13 / 01 / 2015
TENSE TUESDAY: STOP -ING OR INFINITIVE: meaning and examples
Hello everyone, and welcome to the first Tense Tuesday of the year for the Daily Vitamin.
Today we are looking at the word STOP followed by the gerund (-ING) or the INFINITIVE form of a verb. The meaning of the sentence changes depending on whether you use gerund or infinitive.
STOP -ING means TO QUIT something.
Example 1: I am going to stop smoking this year.
Example 2: She said she will stop drinking coffee in 2015.
STOP INFINITIVE means TO STOP AN ACTION TO BEGIN ANOTHER.
Example 3: We stopped (working) to drink some coffee.
Example 4: She stopped to take a photo.
Example 5: I stopped to rest, and then I kept running.
We looked at this idea in 2010. Click on the link below to review this lesson.
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=1406
Do you have a resolution for the New Year? Is it to STOP doing something? Let us know on our Facebook page, and make sure to follow the word STOP with the correct gerund or infinitive.
https://www.facebook.com/ZigguratEscuelaCorporativadeIdiomas
See you tomorrow for Wordy Wednesday. Thanks for reading!
Today we are looking at the word STOP followed by the gerund (-ING) or the INFINITIVE form of a verb. The meaning of the sentence changes depending on whether you use gerund or infinitive.
STOP -ING means TO QUIT something.
Example 1: I am going to stop smoking this year.
Example 2: She said she will stop drinking coffee in 2015.
STOP INFINITIVE means TO STOP AN ACTION TO BEGIN ANOTHER.
Example 3: We stopped (working) to drink some coffee.
Example 4: She stopped to take a photo.
Example 5: I stopped to rest, and then I kept running.
We looked at this idea in 2010. Click on the link below to review this lesson.
https://www.ziggurat.es/es/lecciones_ingles/index.asp?id=1406
Do you have a resolution for the New Year? Is it to STOP doing something? Let us know on our Facebook page, and make sure to follow the word STOP with the correct gerund or infinitive.
https://www.facebook.com/ZigguratEscuelaCorporativadeIdiomas
See you tomorrow for Wordy Wednesday. Thanks for reading!
