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6 Easy Grammar Rules for Gerunds & Infinitives When I introduce a gerunds and infinitives activity in class, I am usually faced with looks of quiet desperation or grim determination. Most students find the endless list of verbs to memorize daunting, to say the least! Also, most textbooks don’t cover the fact that there ARE a few helpful rules for deciding whether to use a gerund or an infinitive in a sentence. The next time you’re doing gerunds and infinitives in class, try teaching the rules below—your students will thank you! The Basics Gerund:  VERB + -ING  ( eating, going, studying ) Infinitive:  TO + BASE VERB  ( to eat, to go, to study ) A gerund is the present participle ( -ing ) form of the verb. An infinitive is  to  +  the   base verb  (the verb with no ending). Both gerunds and infinitives are action words (i.e., verbs) in meaning, but they act like  nouns  in the sentence. They always take a noun position: a  su...

Few And little Form (a) few + plural countable noun (a) little + uncountable noun Meaning A few  and  a little  is used to mean a small quantity or a small number. I have  a few  friends.  (a small number) I have  a little  money.  (a small amount) Few  and  little  is used to mean "not enough", or to give the small quantity/number a negative meaning. I have  few  friends.  (a small number, and I wish I had more) I have  little  money.  (a small amount, and I wish I had more) Few  and  little  without "a" are quite formal. In spoken English it is more common to say "only a few/little" or "not much/many". Few  people came to the meeting  (more formal) Only a few  people came to the meeting  (less formal) Not many  people came to the meeting  (less formal) If we use  a few  or  a little  before a pronoun or determiner, we use  of ....