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My column last week dealt with the two forms the infinitive takes in actual usage, namely as full or to-infinitive or as base or zero infinitive. As explained in detail in that column, the choice ...

When you talk about an activity, you usually use a gerund. For example, ‘I stopped playing’, and many other activities may be shown using the verb ‘go’ – as in, ‘ go shopping’ ‘go jumping’ et al. The ...

Last week, to answer a question from an Iran-based English teacher, I started laying out the basis for why the full infinitive “to take” is the correct answer in this multiple-choice statement: “Peter ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...