3、 動名詞作賓語

　　Your shoes need polishing. 你的皮鞋該擦了。

　　Jim dislikes eating chocolate. 吉姆不喜歡吃巧克力。

　　She can’t help crying at a sad movie. 她看了憂傷的電影禁不住要哭。

　　The doctor advised taking exercise. 醫生讓多運動。

　　Would you mind filling out this form? 請填一下這張表好嗎?

　　The thief admitted entering the house. 小偷承認進了屋。

　　Have you finished correcting the students’ papers? 學生們的卷子改完沒有?

　　有些動詞和動詞短語后只能接動名詞作賓語。這些動詞及短語有：

　　admit, acknowledge, advise, appreciate, avoid, delay, deny, dislike, enjoy, excuse, escape, fancy, finish, forgive, face, endure, involve, give up, imagine, mention, mind, miss, pardon, practise, require, resent, resist, suggest, recall, resist, understand, think of, give up, aim at, put off, insist on, persist in, be good at, do well in, can't help, keep on, leave off, feel like, be tired (afraid, capable, fond) of, set about, be used to, object to, devote oneself to, stick to, respond to, look forward to, see to, submit to, adapt to, apply to, accede to, get to, prefer to, adjust to, owe to, react to等。

　　The doctor advised taking more exercise.

　　醫生建議多鍛煉。

　　I suggest doing it in a different way.

　　我建議用不同的方法做。

　　Do you feel like having a drink?

　　你想喝點飲料嗎?

　　I prefer swimming to playing basketball.

　　我喜歡游泳勝于打籃球。

　　有些動詞既可接動名詞作賓語，也可接不定式，但在語義上卻有很大差別。如：

　　⑴chance to do 碰巧去做某事

　　chance doing 冒險試一試做某事

　　⑵forget to do 忘記要去做某事

　　forget doing 忘記曾做過某事

　　⑶go on to do 接著又做另一件事

　　go on doing 繼續做同一件事

　　⑷remember to do 記得要去做某事