Teacher Stumpers Episode 1 - Infinitve v. Gerund - Remember and Forget

A teacher stumpers episode explaining the differences between gerunds and infinitives. You can read the full article at http://www.englishspark.com/en/blogs/stumpers/80-gerund-v-infinitives-part-1-... I talk about the differences between remember and forget when using infinitives and gerunds. For example, I forgot to lock the door and I remembered to lock the door. You can view the original screencast at http://screencast.com/t/ygkw9jlgh This presentation was made by Neal Chambers.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• English
• grammar
• remember
• forget
• infinitive
• gerund
• EFL

[ansh2687]

Hi, thanks for posting this video. However, there is an important grammatical mistake that I'd like to clarify: 'The verb FORGET can be followed by a gerund complement ONLY when the main clause includes a negative word like NEVER or NOT with a modal. Moreover, the content of the complement must describe something that was a special experience for the speaker. Therefore, when these conditions do not occur, the gerund complement sounds ungrammatical like this example: He forgot mailing the letter

[nealrchambers]

@ansh2687 Thanks for commenting. Although I can agree that USUALLY the main clause needs a negative word NEVER or NOT. It doesn't require one according to Michael Swan's Practical English Usage. Corpus Data actually backs this up as well at americancorpusDOTcom

Also, even though I didn't mention it, we can definitely use forget ~ing in the imperative too:

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Thanks again!

[saniyeleenatalie]

Thank you so much.Now I know what my books says? I loved the examples on remember and lock.

[dannydash]

This helped me a little, thanks :)