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Verbs that are followed by gerunds

Enjoy, love, quit, give up, stop, start, mind, prefer, like,

hate, abhor, deny, regret, go, admit, avoid, be used to,

can’t help, can’t stand, consider, end up, feel like,

forget, get used to, keep, look forward to, miss, have

problems, look forward to, have difficulty/trouble,

mention, remember, waste time

Examples:

I enjoy talking to people.

Ashish loves teaching.

My parents like watching old movies.

He hates waking up early.

Jon has recently quit smoking.

We have asked him to give up drinking.

Can you stop pretending to be a friend?

We should start doing what we used to do in

college.

I don’t mind working with her.

I prefer being alone than having a lot of people

around me.

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