He wants to know when to use the gerund (doing) and when to use the infinitive (to do). 1. After a preposition, we use the gerund. The prepositions can come after an adjective, after a verb or at ...

Great writers—including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne and Wordsworth—have been inserting adverbs between “to” and infinitives since the 1200s. Where did these phony rules originate ...

THE MARK of good writers is not simply the richness of their ideas and knowledge of grammar, but also their ability to set their thoughts in parallel. Even great minds would tend to communicate poorly ...

Guy Blandin Colburn, The Complementary Infinitive and Its Pronoun Object, Hispania, Vol. 11, No. 5 (Nov., 1928), pp. 424-429 ...

-- The present subjunctive and the past subjunctive -- Prepositions -- The infinitive mood -- The imperative mood -- The present participle and gerund -- The simple past, the passive voice, and ...