(二) 動名詞

1. 以下動詞常接動名詞作賓語
admit advise anticipate appreciate avoid cease
consider delay deny dislike enjoy escape
favor finish fancy feel like forgive keep
imagine suggest understand miss resume quit
postpone risk acknowledge practice mind hate

We shall appreciate hearing from you again.
Would you resent her interfering in your business?

2. 動名詞用在these is no use/no sense(沒道理)/no harm(不妨)/no point(沒道理)/no fun(沒意思)結(jié)構(gòu)中。
There is no use going to see her today, she is busy.
There is no point (in) trying to persuade him to do anything.

3. 動名詞用在It’s no use/no fun/no harm/no picnic(有困難、有麻煩)結(jié)構(gòu)中，但it’s of no use 應(yīng)接不定式。
It’s no fun milling around, for it is raining.
It’s no picnic having to take care of 5 children all day.（……可不是玩兒的。）
It’s no good doing so many things.
It’s of no use to help him, he doesn’t listen to you.

4. 動名詞用在以下結(jié)構(gòu)中：
have no business in have difficulty in take pleasure in
spend time/money in waste time in have a trouble in
take/ have a difficult/hart/good time in take turns at take risk in
I have difficulties in distinguishing between “sit” and “seat”.
She took great pleasure in getting to that peak.

5. 形容詞worth, busy后接動名詞。
Don’t bother her. She is busy preparing for her lessons.
Knowledge is worth working for.

6. 動詞feel like/can’t help 后接動名詞。
When he heard the news, he couldn’t help crying.
He doesn’t feel like taking a walk.

7. 以下短語后常接動名詞，其中的to是介詞：
look forward to adapt to attend to amount to 
confess to commit to consent to devote to see to 照料
turn to求助于 live up to lead to apply to object to
resort to react to contribute to belong to
Tom confessed to having cheated in the exam.湯姆承認(rèn)考試舞了弊。
What he had done led to his mother’s worrying about him.

8. 動詞advise, admit, allow, bear, forbid, permit, intend, recommend, like, consider, understand, attempt, plan, etc.既可接動名詞作賓語，也可接不定式作賓語。
Will you permit me to smoke?
We do not permit smoking in the office.
They admitted having seen us.
They admitted him to be lazy.

9. 動詞begin, start, prefer, continue, love, like, hate, etc.接不定式和動名詞作賓語意思差別不大。
She began to study English at the age of 8.
She began studying English at the age of 8.

10. 以下動詞跟不定式，動名詞的意思差別很大。
1)remember to do sth 記住要做某事
remember doing sth 記得做過某事
I remember seeing her somewhere.
I’ll remember to bring you the book.

2)forget to do sth 忘記要做某事
forget doing sth 忘記曾經(jīng)做過某事
I forgot giving her the key.

3)regret to do sth 對尚未做的事表示遺憾
regret doing sth 對做的事表示后悔
I bitterly regret having told him the story last night.
I regret to say that I’m very busy.

4)try to do sth 盡力做某事
try doing sth 試著做某事
I’ll try to finish the job as soon as possible.
I tried standing on my head but it gave me a headache.

5)mean to do sth 打算做某事
mean doing sth 意思是；意味著
I meant to write to you, but I was ill.
I’ll learn how to row(劃船) even if it means practicing all day.

6)stop to do sth 停下（某事）去做……
stop doing sth 停止做某事
I stopped to speak to the captain of the ship as I wanted his advice.
I stopped smoking when I started to train for the Olympics.

7)go on to do sth 做完某事接著做另一件事
go on doing sth 繼續(xù)做某事
The speaker, having finished his main theme, went on to talk about minor problems of sailing.
Let’s go on discussing of the Chinese Communist Part.

11. 動名詞的邏輯主語
1）當(dāng)邏輯主語為無生命的或較長名詞時，只能用普通格，不用所有格。
Did you ever hear of a man of good sense refusing such an offer?(較長)
We are opposed to the idea of weapon being everything and man nothing.

2)當(dāng)邏輯主語為不定代詞或指示代詞時用賓格，不用所有格。
I object to that being said about me.（指示代詞）
He was awakened by someone knocking on the window.（不定代詞）

3)當(dāng)邏輯主語是指物的it時用賓格或所有格，指時間時用賓格。
She was worried about the little bird. She was frightened of it/its building a nest in the chimney.
“It’s eight o’clock already. ”
“I’m surprised at it being so late. ”