• marron12@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And then there’s the different ways to connect verbs in English.

    • I want to go to the movies. (“I want going” is wrong.)
    • I like going to the movies. / I like to go to the movies. (Both ways work.)
    • I despise going to the movies. (“I despise to go” is wrong.)

    There aren’t rules for that, as far as I know. Just very fuzzy guidelines at best. And word stress is pretty random too. Both of those things can be tricky for non-native speakers.