FCE B - Grammar reference

1....is used after these main verbs:

Admit Appreciate Consider Delay Deny Detest Dislike

Enjoy Escape Face Feel like Finish Forgive Give up

Imagine Involve Mention Mind Miss Postpone Practise

Prefer Put off Recommend Resent Risk Suggest Understand

e.g.: I appreciate going to the movies with her.

You need to finish reading that book.
2. ...is used after an adjective, verb
or noun followed by a preposition:

e.g.: She’s really good at swimming

He apologised for arriving late.
I quite like the thought of working in a
travel agency.
3. ...is also used in some fixed
expressions:

e.g.: I can’t bear listening to people who

complain.
I can’t help feeling that he’s cheating us.
That book is not worth reading.
1. ...is used after these main verbs:
Afford Agree Appear Arrange Ask Attempt Bear Begin

Care Choose Consent Decide Determine Expect Fail Forget

Happen Hate Help Hesitate Hope Intend Learn Like

Love Manage Mean Offer Prefer Prepare Pretend Promise

Propose Refuse Remember Seem Start Swear Try Want

Wish

e.g.: I can’t afford to eat in that restaurant.

I hate to go shopping with Alice, I prefer to go there with my family.
2. ...is used after some adjectives:
e.g.: I was happy to see her.
They were wrong to refuse.

3. ...is used after some nouns:

e.g.: She never regretted her decision to be a teacher.
It’s time to leave.
He has no wish to become involved in the matter.

4. ...is also used to express purpose:

e.g.: I wanna go to Montréal to visit my cousins.
 o These verbs are followed by object
+ infinitive with to :
Advise Allow Ask Cause Command Encourage Expect

Forbid Force Get Hate Help Instruct Intend

Invite Leave Like Mean Need Oblige Order

Permit Persuade Prefer Press Recommend Remind Request

Teach Tell Tempt Trouble Want Warn Wish

e.g.: He asked me to help him.

Her parents forbade her to see Tom again.
The principal recommended us to stop fighting.
1. ...is used after these main verbs followed by an object +
infinitive (without to): let,
let make,
make hear,
hear help and see.
see

e.g.: The teacher made us repeat the exercises.

Their parents don’t let them stay out late.
We heard his play in Zurich.

Watch Out! In passive sentences,

sentences the verbs above are
followed by an infinitive with to.
e.g.: My parents let me stay out late.
I am allowed to stay out late by my parents.
2. ...is used after modal verbs.
e.g.: You must leave now!
She can sleep here.

3. ...is used after would rather/had

better :
e.g.: You’d better come in now.
1. Can’t bear/stand, hate, like, love, prefer
When these verbs above are used with the
infinitive ,they refer to more specific
situations. When they are used with the
gerund, they refer to more general
situtions. The difference in meaning is very
slight:

e.g.: I prefer to work on a computer than to write

by hand.
I can’t stand listening to her complaining all the
time.
2) Remember, forget, regret, stop, try

• remember/forget + ing refers to na

action that happened before the
moment of remembering/forgetting;
•remember/forget + infinitive refers to
an action after the moment of
remember/forgetting.
e.g.: I remember seeing you somewhere before (=
that I have seen you)
Did you remember to lock the door?
She had completely forgotten telling him about her
 Regret + ing means be sorry about
an action in the past.
 Regret + infinitive means be sorry
about an action in the past

e.g.: I regret going to the party last

night
I regret to have to tell you that your
car has been stolen.
 Stop + ing means stop something you
do
Stop + infinitive with to means stop in
order to do something

e.g.: I stopped drinking coffee because

it kept me awake at night.
We stopped to have a coffee on the way
home.
 Try+ ing means do an experiment
(doing the action may not be successful)
Try + infinitive means make an effort
(the action may be difficult or
impossible to do)

e.g.: Try studing at a different time of

day – it might suit you better.
Try to study at regular times.