Best in class: verbs and verb patterns (EN)
Not every English verb “works like in Danish” — the pattern (gerund vs to-infinitive, object order) is part of the meaning.
Case: to stop doing vs to stop to do
“She stopped talking” = the talking ended. “She stopped to talk” = she stopped another action in order to talk. The same two words, two patterns, two ideas.
3 tasks
1) gerund after prepositions + verb list
Build four correct phrases: (a) interested in + -ing, (b) good at + -ing, (c) look forward to + -ing, (d) can’t help + -ing — say why “to” in (c) is not the infinitive “to”.
Key: in (c) “to” is part of a phrasal chunk; the verb form is still the -ing that follows a preposition in “forward to + V-ing”.
2) V + object + infinitive
“They told me to leave” (not *“They told to me to leave” in standard order). “She let him go” (bare inf). Write two more, one with “ask”, one with “allow”, correct word order in each.
Key: “tell/ask/allow/expect + person + to-inf / pattern” is high exam frequency — drill order, not only vocabulary.
3) phrasal register
“give up, carry on, find out, put off” — one sentence each, neutral register, not slang pile-up, so they fit a short essay, not a chat transcript.
Key: one phrasal per sentence, clear object (transitive) or intransitive, as the verb demands.