{"id":1638,"date":"2015-04-22T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:46:05","slug":"magoosh-comics-reviewing-gerunds-and-infinitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/magoosh-comics-reviewing-gerunds-and-infinitives\/","title":{"rendered":"Magoosh Comics: Reviewing Gerunds and Infinitives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/gerunds-infinitives-and-describing-actions\/\">last<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/gerunds-infinitives-and-verbs-as-nouns\/\">two<\/a> posts on this topic, I looked at five important rules for using gerunds (verbs that end in \u201c-ing\u201d) and infinitives (\u201cto\u2026\u201d verbs). You can go back to those posts to see all five rules in detail, with lots of examples.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, we\u2019ll review the different ways to use gerunds and infinitives. Read the comic strip below to see all the different ways you can use these verb forms. The featured verb is <em>ice fish<\/em>, which means \u201cto fish on top of a frozen lake by drilling a hole in the ice.\u201d It\u2019s a popular pastime in my cold home state of Wisconsin, USA. So I guess this comic delivers a cultural lesson too! J<\/p>\n<p>To really test your knowledge, download and complete a worksheet containing two review activities: <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/files\/2015\/04\/GerundInfinitiveWorksheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gerunds and Infinitives Worksheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1639\" src=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/files\/2015\/04\/mc-rgai_img1.gif\" alt=\"mc-rgai_img1\" width=\"620\" height=\"807\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last two posts on this topic, I looked at five important rules for using gerunds (verbs that end in \u201c-ing\u201d) and infinitives (\u201cto\u2026\u201d verbs). You can go back to those posts to see all five rules in detail, with lots of examples. In this post, we\u2019ll review the different ways to use gerunds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13603],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[13630],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magoosh Comics: Reviewing Gerunds and Infinitives - Magoosh Blog \u2013 TOEFL\u00ae\ufe0f Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/magoosh-comics-reviewing-gerunds-and-infinitives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magoosh Comics: Reviewing Gerunds and Infinitives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In my last two posts on this topic, I looked at five important rules for using gerunds (verbs that end in \u201c-ing\u201d) and infinitives (\u201cto\u2026\u201d verbs). 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