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Verb patterns · CEFR B2 · Confident
For a handful of verbs both forms are correct and mean different things. -ing looks back at what happened; "to" looks forward at the purpose.
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I stopped smoking last year — I am much healthier now.
stop / remember / forget / try + -ing or + to
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I stopped smoking last year — I am much healthier now.
"Stopped to smoke" means you paused in order to smoke; quitting is "stopped smoking".
The shape
stop / remember / forget / try + -ing or + to
Say exactly what you mean with the trickiest verbs.
In Hindi
कुछ क्रियाओं के साथ दोनों रूप सही हैं, पर अर्थ अलग। -ing पीछे देखता है, "to" आगे।
CoCap explains every structure in both languages, because a rule you understand in Hindi is a rule you can use in English.
The sentence Indian-English speakers actually produce, and the reason it is wrong.
| Commonly said | Correct English |
|---|---|
I stopped to smoke last year — I am much healthier now. | I stopped smoking last year — I am much healthier now. "Stopped to smoke" means you paused in order to smoke; quitting is "stopped smoking". |
These come first. The rest of this makes more sense once they are automatic.
Where this structure sits in the ladder, and what surrounds it.
stop doing or stop to do? is a CEFR B2 structure — the confident band — and it belongs to verb patterns. CoCap’s syllabus files every structure this way so you can learn in order instead of jumping between whatever a search happened to return.
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