Would Like Doing Something
Hello everyone,
Is it okay to use "a gerund" after "would like" as follows?
1. I would like spending money.
2. I would like playing football.
3. I would like going swimming/to swim.
Regards,
JA
Top answer
This pattern is not impossible, but it is rather unusual, and your examples might be taken as mistakes for the equivalents with the to-infinitive or without the word "would". If we take a different example: 1. I would like to live here.
- This pattern is not impossible, but it is rather unusual, and your examples might be taken as mistakes for the equivalents with the to-infinitive or without the word "would".
- If we take a different example: 1.
- I would like to live here.
- 2.
- I would like living here.
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This pattern is not impossible, but it is rather unusual, and your examples might be taken as mistakes for the equivalents with the to-infinitive or without the word "would". If we take a different example:
1. I would like to live here.
2. I would like living here.
These two are slightly different in meaning: (1) expresses a desire, while (2) imagines your feeling
0Another point that I forgot to mention is that "would enjoy verb-ing" is probably more common than "would like verb-ing", with similar (maybe not quite identical) meaning.
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