Fidamc Course in Learn & Enjoy

What can we say about someone we admire? Someone we like can be friendly, generous, cheerful, sociable, easygoing, charming, witty and bubbly. We usually don't people who are smug, pretentious, hypocritical, shallow or pushy.

Some people can give the impression of being rude, but most time it's a consequence of being shy. It's not that shy people are not interested in other people, is only that they don't dear to ask! We have learnt today that Bob Dylan, Kim Bassinger and Eric Clapton are extremely shy people.

And finally, a bit of grammar: gerunds and infinitives (again)
Remeber these rules:

- The verbs like, love, hate, prefer, begin and start are usually followen by a gerund, but an infinitive can also be used with little or no difference in meaning

- The verbs enjoy, detest, don't mind, imagine, feel like, suggest, practise, miss and can't stand must be followed by a gerund

- The verbs refuse, hope, promise, ask, learn, expect, decide, afford, offer, choose, and want must be followed by an infinitive

- The verbs stop and remember can be followed by either a gerund or an infinitive, but the meaning is different.

- We use try + gerund to say that somebody does something to see what wil happen
- We use try + infinitive to say that somebody makes an effort to do something

Here you have a few games so you can practise the infinitives!

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/ingform/exercise5.swf

http://www.carmenlu.com/first/grammar/verbs_ing1b.htm