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Do you fully understand English Infinitives? These tests will help you to learn, review, and refresh your knowledge about English Infinitives.

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Gerunds and Infinitives (Verbs): Fun & humorous ESL video to peak your students’ engagement!

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Gerunds and Infinitives (Verbs): Fun & humorous ESL video to peak your students’ engagement!

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Gerunds and Infinitives (Verbs): Fun & humorous ESL video to peak your students’ engagement!

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1. Infinitives is to + base form of a verb. For a negative infinitive, place not before to. 

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1. Infinitives is to + base form of a verb. For a negative infinitive, place not before to. 

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a.    An examples when infinitives act as subject. (It is formal)

i) To procrastinate causes a lot of problems.

ii)  Not to go ahead (negative infinitive) proved a mistake.

b.    An example when infinitives act as object.

i) Not everyone wants to procrastinate.

c.    An example when infinitives act as subject complement.

i) His job is to motivate people.

ii) It’s advisable to finish what you started. (It + an infinitive phrase is more common)

d) An example of past infinitive
i) You seem to have forgotten the report that was due today. (to +have + past particle)

e) An example of active and passive form of infinitive.
i) She was glad to have invited them. (active form)
ii) They were happy to have been invited. (passive form)

To avoid repeating an infinitive, just replace the verb with to. (This is called ellipsis)
- For example, Steve knew he had to go to work, but he didn’t want to.

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1. The dog needs _________ .

A. to be trained

B. to train

C. train

D. to have trained

2. The workers accepted the cut in salary without complaint because they were afraid _______ their jobs.

A. to have lost

B. to lose

C. lose

D. to be lost

3. Pragmatists were hardly the first men ________ beliefs control behavior.

A. insisted

B. who insists

C. to insist

D. Insist

4. ________ , my tennis went daily from bad to worse, and the worse it become, the more I loved it.

A. To honest be

B. To be quite honest

C. If I be honest

D. Being honest

5. After studying hard to become an accountant, he discovered that it was not what he wanted _______ .

A. to do

B. doing

C. that

D. to

6. The tennis champion has been asked _________ an exhibition game at the tennis club next Sunday.

A. to play

B. play

C. to have played

D. to be played

7. She ordered the room ________ before breakfast.

A. to be swept

B. sweep

C. to sweep

D. sweeping

8. When a molar started to ache, I decided it was time _________ a dentist.

A. to see

B. to have seen

C. seeing

D. see

9. I muttered encouraging words to myself ________ up my courage.

A. keeping

B. to have kept

C. to keep

D. being kept

10. On my way home I stopped _______some bread at the bakery.

A. buying

B. to have bought

C. to buy

D. to buying

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Now, let's us discuss a few questions

Exercise 1 (B): Discover the Grammar (Page 292 )
Refer to page 292. We provided the answer here.

1. T
2. F
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. F

Exercise 2: Verbs/ Nouns / Infinitives (Page 292 – 293)

Refer to page 292-293. We provided the answer here

2. warned not to put off

3. wanted to make

4. will be important experience

5. forced me to study

6. was fortunate to graduate

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2. When verbs, adjectives or noun followed by an infinitive

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2. When verbs, adjectives or noun followed by an infinitive

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a) Certain verb are followed by required noun or pronoun + an infinitive.  For example ;
i) I warned (verb) Lisa (noun) to make (infinitive) the lists.
NOT : I warned (verb) to make (infinitive) the lists.

b) Certain adjectives can be followed by infinitives. For example ;
i) Nurul is afraid (adjectives to describe people, not things)  to make (infinitive) mistakes.
ii) Ahmad is not willing (adjective to express feelings about the action described in the infinitive) to help (infinitive) us.

c) A noun is often followed by an infinitive.

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3. Verbs followed by the Gerunds or Infinitive

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3. Verbs followed by the Gerunds or Infinitive

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BE CAREFUL! 'To as a preposition is followed by a gerund, regular noun or pronoun, not followed by infinitive. But some verbs can be followed by either gerunds or infinitives, depend on the meaning of the word.

1. Examples of verb followed by the gerunds or infinitive without a significant change in meaning :
a) They began to encourage her.(infinitives)
b) They began encouraging her.(gerunds)

2. Examples of verbs followed by the gerunds or infinitives with a significant change in meaning :
a) Ella quit to work at KFC.(infinitives)
b)Ella quit working at KFC.(gerunds)

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a) The words too and enough are often used before infinitives. For example ;
i) The assignment is *too complicated to finish on time.
ii) Aizat is not strong **enough to lift 175 pounds.

*Too + adjective/adverb + infinitive
** Adjective/adverb + enough + infinitive. Enough can also be used after a noun. This usage is formal.

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An infinitive is a verb form that acts as other parts of the speech in a sentence. It is formed with to + base form of the verb. For examples : To buy, to work, to sleep etc.

Use infinitive with to:

1. To express a reason or purpose.                                      i) He ran to avoid being caught.

2. After adjectives.                  i)This safe is easy to break open.

3. After verbs.                                 i) He threatens to hurt the man.

4. After ‘too’ and ‘enough’.            i) He is too tired to win the race.                                            ii) She is not fast enough to win the race.

5. After superlatives and first, second, third...when used as the object of a sentence.          i) The most difficult thing is to score a goal.                               ii) The first thing you do is to change your shoes.