Speaking of gerunds, has anyone noticed that catenatives tend to be followed by gerunds if the catenative is a phrasal verb? |
Just as many catenatives are followed by the infinitive, so others take the gerund. |
Unlike periphrastics, however, catenatives combine certain verbs with an infinitive. |
Sentences containing catenatives have one proposition, coded by the main verb following these. |
The information on catenatives is adopted from Understanding English Grammar by Martha Kolln, 4th Edition. |