Verbs (23) - Verbs followed by to + infinitive

1. အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြက to + infinitive လုိက္တယ္။

I decided to go home as soon as possible.

We all wanted to have more English classes.

Common Verbs Followed by to + infinitive

Verbs of thinking and feeling

Choose, decide, expect, forget, hate, hope, intend, learn, like, love, mean, plan, prefer, remember, would like, would love, etc.

Verbs of saying

Agree, promise, refuse, etc.

Other common verbs

Arrange, attempt, fall, help, manage, tend, try, want

2. အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြက a noun and to + infinitive လုိက္တယ္။

She asked him to send her a text message.

He wanted all his friends to come to his party.

ဒီပံုစံမ်ိဳး common verbs ေတြကေတာ့ -

Verbs of saying

Advise, ask, encourage, invite, order, persuade, remind, tell, warn, etc.

Warn ကိုေတာ့ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ not နဲ႔တြဲသံုးတယ္။

The police warned everyone not to drive too fast.

Verbs of wanting or liking

Expect, intend, world, prefer, want, would like, etc.

Other verbs with this pattern

Allow, enable, force, get, teach, etc.

3. Passive infinitive

ဒီ verbs ေတြအမ်ားစုေနာက္က ရံခါ passive infinitive လုိက္တယ္။ (to be + past participle)

I expected to be met when I arrived at the station.

They wanted to be told if anything happened.

I don’t like driving myself. I prefer to be driven.