{"id":8514,"date":"2014-09-10T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T15:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/vandal\/?p=8514"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:50:19","slug":"fun-with-gerunds-and-infinitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/fun-with-gerunds-and-infinitives\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerund And Infinitive Meaning Lesson (With Worksheet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Meaning Of The Gerund And Infinitive B2 – FCE<\/h2>\n

Understanding the differences in meaning between the gerund and infinitive in phrases is a challenge for many students.<\/p>\n

While some verbs change the meaning completely, others remain more or less the same.<\/p>\n

But knowing which ones change and which ones take on a new sense is not governed by any strict rules.<\/p>\n

This activity focuses on phrases such as \u201cshe stopped having lunch\u201d and \u201cshe stopped to have lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the worksheet, students look at pairs of short sentences and need to decide if there is a significant difference in meaning.<\/p>\n

Or, if the meaning is more or less the same for both phrases.<\/p>\n

Also included is a worksheet to learn which common verbs are followed by the infinitive or the gerund.<\/p>\n

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Related:<\/strong> Gerunds After Dependent Prepositions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Meaning Of The Gerund And Infinitive B2 – FCE Understanding the differences in meaning between the gerund and infinitive in phrases is a challenge for many students. While some verbs change the meaning completely, others remain more or less the same. But knowing which ones change and which ones take on a new sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,82,83,98,103],"tags":[15,56],"class_list":["post-8514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advanced","category-gerund-grammar","category-infinitives-grammar","category-intermediate","category-with-worksheets","tag-gerunds","tag-infinitives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19037,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8514\/revisions\/19037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derekhaines.ch\/justeslenglish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}