Gerunds are the -ing form of a verb, and infinitives are the to + base form. These words can be confusing; they combine the meaning of a verb with the grammar of a noun. My father asked me to phone ...

With those rules now clear in mind, we can confidently tackle our next grammar decision: When do we use an infinitive or gerund? To state it as simply as we can make it, which is better or more ...

LAST week we took up the perfect infinitive as a grammatical form that, in tandem with the main verb of a sentence, either refers to things that might have happened in the past, as in “The board seems ...