English Grammar: Common Verb Patterns and Structures

Posted on Feb 9, 2025 in Medicine & Health

Common English Verb Patterns

Here’s a list of common English verb patterns and structures, with examples:

  • Admit doing something: admit to doing something.
  • Being used to doing something: be used to doing something.
  • Unable to avoid doing something: cannot help doing something.
  • Unable to bear to do something: cannot stand doing something.
  • Imagine doing something: imagine doing something.
  • In addition to doing something: in addition to doing something.
  • Not worth doing something: it’s no use doing something.
  • Suggest doing something: suggest doing something.
  • Avoid doing something: to avoid doing something.
  • Do something worthwhile: to be worth doing something.
  • Start doing something: to begin / to start doing something.
  • Consider doing something: to consider doing something.
  • Deny having done something: to deny doing something.
  • Do not like to do something: to dislike doing something.
  • Enjoy doing something: to enjoy doing something.
  • Want to do something: to feel like doing something.
  • End of doing something: to finish doing something.
  • Getting used to do something: to get used to doing something.
  • Hate to do something: to hate doing something.
  • Continuing to do something: to keep doing something.
  • Gustar do something: to like doing something.
  • Be willing to do something: to look forward to doing something.
  • Enchant do something: to love doing something.
  • Import to something: to mind doing something.
  • Importing someone to do something: to mind somebody doing something.
  • Miss doing something: to miss doing something.
  • ‘d rather do something to something else: to prefer doing something to doing something else.
  • Recommend do something: to recommend doing something.
  • Resisting do something: to resist doing something.
  • Risking do something: to risk doing something.
  • When it comes to something: when it comes to doing something.
  • Being one’s responsibility to do something: to be up to somebody to do something.
  • Be willing to do something: cannot wait to do something.
  • Advising someone to do something: to advise somebody to do something.
  • Afford to do something: to afford to do something.
  • Allowing someone do something: to allow somebody to do something.
  • Be ready to do something: to be about to do something.
  • Convincing someone to do something: to convince somebody to do something.
  • Deciding to do something: to decide to do something.
  • Encourage / stimulate someone to do something: to encourage somebody to do something.
  • Expecting someone do something: to expect somebody to do something.
  • Forbidding someone to do something: to forbid somebody to do something.
  • Force someone to do something: to force somebody to do something.
  • Getting someone to do something: to get somebody to do something.
  • Dudar: to hesitate to do something.
  • Inviting someone to do something: to invite somebody to do something.
  • Getting to do something: to manage to do something, to succeed in doing something, to be able to do something, to be capable of doing something.
  • Sort someone to do something: to order somebody to do something.
  • Convincing someone to do something: to persuade somebody to do something.
  • Refusing to do something: to refuse to do something.
  • Remembering someone to do something: to remind somebody to do something.
  • Teaching someone to do something: to teach somebody to do something.
  • Telling someone to do something: to tell somebody to do something.
  • Turn out to be: to turn out to be.
  • Want someone to do something: to somebody want to do something.
  • Warn someone to do something: to warn somebody to do something.
  • You should do something: had better do something.
  • Allowing someone to do something: to let somebody do something.
  • Forcing someone to do something: to make somebody do something.
  • ‘d rather do something: would rather do something.
  • Forget doing something: forget doing something.
  • Forgetting to do something: forget to do something.
  • Regret having done something: to regret doing something.
  • Beware do something: regret to do something.
  • Remember doing something: remember doing something.
  • Remembering to do something: remember to do something.
  • Stop doing something: stop doing something.
  • Stop to do something else: to do something stop.
  • Try to do something: try doing something.
  • Try to do something: try to do something.
  • Need to be done something: need doing something.
  • They need to do: need to do something.