ENJOY : LIKE : AMUSE

Topic 27

  

ENJOY : LIKE : AMUSE

These verbs may be used with a direct object.

* I enjoyed the party very much.

* I liked the people I met there.

* The games we played there amused me very much.

Enjoy and amuse are used with the reflexive pronouns.

* They seem to be enjoying themselves.

* How do you amuse yourselves on winter evening?

Like may be used with an infinitive or a gerund. Enjoy is used with a gerund but not with an infinitive.

* Do you like (enjoy) playing tennis?

* Do you like to read in bed?

Note that the infinitive, not the gerund is preferred after would/should like

* Would you like to go for a walk?

* I should like to know what he has been doing.