Question

Dinesh and Divya have been assigned homework on non-finite. They are not sure when to use a gerund and when to use an infinitive. They decide to meet their teacher and get their doubts cleared. The teacher introduces them to Mr. Gerund and Ms. Infinitive.

Answer 1

Teacher	This is Mr.Gerund.You may have seen him after these verbs ‘enjoy’, ‘finish’, ‘keep’, ‘mind’, ’suggest’, ’forgive’, ’excuse’, ‘postpone’,’ go’
Gerund	I come after a Preposition too.
Teacher	Mr. Gerund comes in handy to describe a real action.
Infinitive	Hello friends, I am Infinitive. Words such as ‘like’, ‘refuse’ are followed by me.
Dinesh	I know you. I take your help to describe a general or future action. (I think I need to get up early tomorrow to complete my grammar exercise).
Divya	You have helped me to express ‘reason’, ’intention’,’ purpose’. (I wish to finish my assigment by tonight.)
Gerund	Do you know, after verbs like ‘begin’,’ love’,’ continue’, ‘try’, ‘learn’, ‘start’, ‘neglect’, you can use either of us?
Infinitive	But remember we mean different things when used after ‘stop’.
Dinesh	Divya, When we saw Rajesh at the mall, I stopped to talk to him. Why didn’t you wait?
Divya	Don’t you know I stopped talking to him?
Gerund	I am also used after these phrases –‘It’s no use ‘, ‘It’s no good‘
Dinesh and Divya	Thank you , mam. Bye Mr.Gerund and Ms.Infinitive.