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Sometimes we come across with verbs followed by a Gerund (verb ending in -ing which expresses a progressive form or a continuous action) or an infinitive preceded by the preposition “to” or sometimes the same verb uses both patterns. Which is the difference among them? Then let´s learn more about Gerunds which come Latin “gerere” which means “to do” and we use them to emphasize the action of doing something.   Sometimes the Gerund can act as a noun when we refer to the action in an abstract manner or as an adjective before the noun that accompanies as a collocation, for example: Dancing is good for your health. Painting is a good hobby when you live beside a beautiful place. Reading was my favourite pastime when I was a teenager. She likes gardening but I prefer swimming in our pool. The plants need watering every day. This is the singing parrot which is renowned in the whole country. She was the dancing queen at the club during the whole week. He used to go for str

  We have already learnt the Present Perfect so we have come across this tense which has got the same pattern as the Present Perfect tense but the verb “have” is always in the unique past form “had” for all persons and numbers and the main verb is transformed into the past participle form too as all the Perfect tenses. Examples in affirmative, negative and interrogative of all persons in singular/plural: I had brought him the map. I hadn´t caught the leprechaun. Had I cut myself? You had eaten lunch. You had not forgotten her. Had you begun the course? He had broken his toy. He hadn´t shook his body. Had he given us a gift? She had sold her flat. She hadn´t met him. Had she lent you the book? It had blown last night. It hadn´t become yet. Had it cost you twelve dollars?   We had already gone to the village. We hadn´t built that manor. Had we paid them? You had fallen in a grisly pit. You hadn´t run the race. Had you drunk the beer? They had fought for us. They had