Gerunds and Infinitives. Please Help!

opori2
Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:40:34 +0000

Well, at a glance, the one about reviewing for the final is in present tense and about what someone is about to do/doing. With the one about Clara, it was a past tense description about what she was doing, so if you address it later, using “to gain” is appropriate because she isn’t still gaining in the past part of her career.

That’s what I sense from it, but I’m not an expert and I don’t have any specific rule or explanation. Going at it with a common sense/sounds right approach, that’s why I think it’s okay for the reviewing one to be in either.