1. Talking
ab!t V-ing

2. V-ing
✦
Gerunds
✦
Participles
✦
Participial adjectives
✦
And other uses

3. Gerunds
✴Subject
in a sentence
✴Learning
English is necessary for
your future.
✴Eating
health.
junk food is bad for your

4. Gerunds
✴Object
of a preposition
✴Thank
✴Can
you for returning my call.
you touch your toes without
bending your knees?
✴Jill
finds pleasure in reading books.

5. Gerunds
✴Object
✴We
of a verb
do not allow smoking in the room.
✴Jane
misses living in the country.
✴Jack
didn’t recall telling Jill the news.

6. Participles
✴Progressive
✴Verb
✴The
form
to be + V-ing
whole family is watching the
singing competition in the living
room.

7. Adjectives
✴Describe
a noun
✴Werewolves
are frightening fictional
creatures. [= werewolves frighten
people.]
✴The
plot of her new novel is fascinating.
[=the plot fascinates readers.]

8. Other Uses
✦
Use V-ing after these words
✦
Time linkers
✦
Go
✦
Possessive adjectives
✦
There is no ...

9. Time Linkers
✴Before,
after, while, when, if, unless
✴Before
going to bed, be sure to brush
your teeth.
✴While
driving a car, it’s wise not to
talk on the phone.

10. Go
✴Use
✴I
V-ing after Go
go shopping every other day.
✴Let’s
go fishing this weekend.
✴Jack
loves to go hiking. [or Jack loves
going hiking.]

11. Possessive Adjectives
✴Use
V-ing after my, your, our, his, her,
its
✴Liz
cannot accept his telling lies.
✴Paul’s
✴Jill’s
drinking cost him his job.
expertise is her cooking.

12. There
✴Use
V-ing after ‘There is no ...’
✴There
is no denying that studying in
higher degrees can be tough.
✴There
is no telling what they will do.

13. V-ing & Infinitive

14. Same Meaning
✴Subject
in a sentence
✴To learn is essential to life.
✴Learning is essential to life.
✴Object of a verb
✴We love to play the piano.
✴We love playing the piano.

15. Same Meaning
✴Subject
✴My
complement
favorite hobby is playing
chess.
✴My
favorite hobby is to play
chess.

16. Different Meaning
✴Jill
stops to talk to me.
✴Jill
pauses what she is doing in order
to talk to me.
✴Jill
stops talking to me.
✴Jill
no longer speaks to me.

17. Different Meaning
✴Jane
remembers to set an alarm clock.
✴Remember
✴Set
✴Jane
✴Set
= 1st action
an alarm clock =
nd
2
action
remembers setting an alarm clock.
an alarm clock = 1st action
✴Remember
= 2nd action

18. Different Meaning
✴Jack
✴The
✴Jack
✴The
forgets to close the window.
window is still open.
forgets closing the window.
window is close but Jack forgets
that he closed it.