Remember that a gerund is the noun form of a verb.
To be is the noun form of a verb.
- Verb patterns
- -ing and -ed clauses
- General v Academic English
- Giving a presentation
- The continuous passive
- Need + verb-ing
- Have something done
- What verb forms follow ‘wish’?
- Participle clauses for giving reasons
- Ways of saying ‘if’
- Compound words
- Passive reporting structures
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Inversion
- Multi-word verbs / Phrasal verbs type 1, 2, 3 & 4
- Future revision
- Modal verbs
- Narrative tenses - tell a story
- Conditionals review
- Used to
- Past habits without ‘used to’
- Linking words of contrast
- 6 uses of ’time’
- 5 ways to talk about the future
- 5 uses of ’light’
- 7 uses of ’light’
- Using the present to talk about the past
- Linking words of contrast 对比转折
- Using stative verbs in the continuous form
- Infinitives of purpose
- Mixed conditionals
- 5 ways to use past for present or future
- ‘Stop’, ‘regret’ and ‘go on’ … followed by gerund or infinitive?
- Uses of the future continuous
- Giving emphasis
- Future in the past
- Discourse markers
- Advanced Learner Mistakes
- Advanced Learner Mistakes: Part two
- Differences between formal and informal English
- Subject-Verb Agreement 1
- Subject-Verb Agreement 2
- Subject-Verb Agreement 3
- 5 uses of ‘wish’
- Being Polite: How to soften your English
- Inversion 1: After Negative or Limiting Adverbs
- Inversion 2
- Discourse Markers 2
- Question Tags
- Participle Clauses
- Aspect
- As .. as
- Bored and boring
- Verb patterns
- Adjective order
- Worth
- Be likely to
- ‘Actually’, ‘in fact’ and ‘well’
- ‘Let’s’ and ‘it’s high time’
- The causative(have + object + past participle)
- How many times & how long
- Gonna, wanna, gotta
- How are you? How do you do?
- Would
- Comma, semicolon, colon
- The Future: present continuous, be going to, will
- Owe, lend and borrow
- Better off
- Yet
- Wear, put on, dress
- When, if and in case
- Though
- Suppose and supposed to
- The past simple and past perfect tenses
- Assure, ensure, insure
- By + Gerund Clauses
- Possibility and Likelihood
- Passive Modals of Obligation