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CBE 1.09 | It’s tea time - Britain’s favourite drink and gerund and infinitive forms

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The Gerund and the Infinitive Form of the Verb

63% of people in the UK drink tea every day and many people love drinking it so much that they can't imagine living without it. In British English after the verbs love, like, hate and don't like we usually use the gerund form to talk about something in general that we like or we don't like. So I like reading. I love going to the cinema. I don’t like playing football. That's right. And later in this sentence we have another example of the gerund. This is just the natural form of the verb with no changes. Nothing added to it. To drink is the infinitive form. Okay let's go back through the text

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