Verbs followed by ‘-ing’ clauses

A. Common verbs followed by ‘–ing’ nouns are:
A1. Verbs of liking and disliking: detest, dislike, enjoy, hate, fancy, like, love, etc.
A2. Verbs of saying and thinking: admit, consider, deny, imagine, remember, suggest, etc.
A3 Other common verbs are: avoid, begin, finish, keep, miss, practise, risk, start, stop, etc.
A4. Phrases with mind, wouldn’t mind (= would like), don’t mind (= I am willing to), would you mind (= will you please…?)

B. also use ‘-ing’ after: give up (= stop), put off (= postpone), go on/ carry on (= continue), keep or keep on (= do something continuously or repeatedly)
B1. with some verbs we can use the structure verb + somebody + ‘-ing’.
B2. When we are talking about finished actions, can say having done/ stolen/ said etc., but it is not necessary to use having (done).

C. After some of the verbs, especially admit, deny, etc., we can also use that ~.

D. Many of these verbs are sometimes followed by the Passive form of ‘-ing’: being + past participle (being done/ seen/ keep etc.)

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