1)、 直接位于句首做主語。
例如:Swimming is a good sport in summer.
2)、 用 it 作形式主語,把動名詞(真實主語)置于句尾作后置主語。動名詞做主語時,不太常用 it 作先行主語,多見于某些形容詞及名詞之后。
例如:It is no use telling him not to worry.
3)、動名詞作主語與動詞不定式作主語的比較:動詞不定式和動名詞都可以用作主語。在意義上相近。但動名詞多用來表示泛指或抽象動作,不定式多用來表示特指或具體動作。比較: Smoking is not good for health. It is not good for you to smoke so much.
2、作表語
動名詞作表語時句子主語常是表示無生命的事物的名詞或what引導的名詞性從句。表語動名詞與主語通常是對等的關(guān)系,表示主語的內(nèi)容,主語、表語可互換位置。
Your task is cleaning the windows. 你的任務(wù)就是擦窗戶。(Cleaning the windows is your task.)
What I hate most is being laughed at. 我最痛恨的就是被別人嘲笑。 (Being laughed at is what I hate most.)
3、作定語
動名詞作定語往往表示被修飾詞的某種用途。如: a washing machine=a machine for washing=a machine which is used for washing 。
4、作賓語
例:We are thinking of making a new plan for the next term. 我們正考慮為下學期制定新的計劃。
5、有些詞后只能接動名詞 ,不能跟不定式。 allow;avoid; celebrate; consider; discontinue; dislike; enjoy; escape; excuse; explain; feel like; finish; forgive; can’t help; imagine; keep; it means;mind; miss; practice; prevent;等
6、另外還有一些接-ing形式的常用短語?!?spend money/time; think of, give up, put off, insist on, be good at, do well in, can't help, keep on, feel like, be tired (afraid, capable, fond) of, look forward to, be used to, devote oneself to, stick to, respond to, look forward to,
7、 有些詞后面加不定式和動名詞均可,例如:remember, forget, try, stop, go on, stop,regret,, mean后面均可用不定式和-ing形式,但意義截然不容?!±?like doing sth 表經(jīng)常性動作like to do sth表習慣性動作;
stop doing sth,停止正在做的事情stop to do sth停下來做另外一件事; remember,forget,regret的不定時結(jié)構(gòu)指后于謂語動詞的動作,動詞的ing形式則先于謂語動詞的動作 remember to do/doing: ?、買 remembered to post the letters.(指未來/過去未來將要做的動作) ?、贗 remembered posting/having posted the letters.(我記得做過這個動作)
try to(努力)與try +–ing(試驗): ①I tried not to go there.(我設(shè)法不去那里)
②I tried doing it again.(我試著又干了一次);go on to do sth繼續(xù)做某事(不是同一件事), go on doing sth繼續(xù)做某事(同一件事);