Yee from Hong Kong writes: I'm so confused by the following verbs: hear, see, make, let and allow. Are these verbs followed by another verb in +ing form or to + base form? see / hear + object + verb ...

A good few years back the old Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann, carried out research into the mistakes most commonly made by learners in their written Irish. The ...

An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...

With infinitives you can either attach the object pronoun to the end of the infinitive or put it before the first conjugated verb. With sentences that include a present participle, you can either ...