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"I stopped smoking" or "I stopped to smoke"?


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hi there my name is Emma and in today's lesson we're going to look at a very

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common mistake

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ESL students make we're going to look at

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I when you have the verb stopped and it's followed by either an infinitive or

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a German and ok so before i explain what all of this means i just like to thank

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say thank you to charles from Venezuela for suggesting this of video on facebook

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ok so shadow to Charles alright so let's get started so first of all what is an

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infinitive

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well we're talking about when we have two verbs

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so we have a verb 1 ok we have a second verb verb to we have a subject I and

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then we have to

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so if you were thinking of English as a mathematical formula

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it would be subject plus the first verb in this case stopped plus 2 plus the

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second verb

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ok so this is what is known as the infinitive now down here i have what's

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known as a gerund

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so a gerund is we have the subject

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we have the first verb just like above and we have a second verb but what

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you'll notice first of all there's no -

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and secondly we have ing so with gerunds and infinitives what we're talking about

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is you have two verbs

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sometimes a verb the first verb is followed by a second verb with ing and

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sometimes it's followed with a two and a second verb

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ok so we're going to look at just one verb in this video

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stop

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because if we use the infinitive or if we use the gerund it changes the meaning

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so let's get started I have a sentence here

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I stopped to talk so what does this mean

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well I have my friend Bob here ok now i'm just going to move over here

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i'm walking down the street that's my first action i'm walking and I stopped

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so first action in this case I was walking second action

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I stopped so i stopped walking and third action as a hi Bob

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so I talk ok so when you stop to do something

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it's more than a single action you're doing something you stop what you're

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doing and then you do the second action

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ok so we'll go over some more examples with this

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now I'd like to compare this to I stopped talking

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ok so the same words the only difference is here we have two here we have ing now

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what does this sentence mean I stopped talking

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it means i was talking and then I stopped

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I'm not talking anymore so no talking

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ok so let's look at some more examples to understand the difference between

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these two sentences

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ok so I now have the sentence

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I stopped to smoke do you think this is an example of an infinitive or a gerund

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well if you notice we have to this is our hint

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we're looking at the infinitive so we have our subject