When one does not carry out an action oneself but rather has the action done by someone else, this is expressed by a causative construction.
Michael Swan: 107, 108, 109
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Category: Grammar
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infinitive or -ing forms
She wants to teach them.
She enjoys teaching them.
She likes to teach them.
She
She hates to teach them.
She hates teaching them.
She stopped teaching them.
She stopped to teach them.
He was writing something, but when I went in, he stopped to
He was making a lot of noise, but when I went in he stopped talking.
She is busy teaching them.
She is busy to teach them.
She must remember to teach them.
She doesn’t remember teaching them.
She tried to teach them.
She tried teaching them.
Michael Swan: 105
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Neither … nor, Either … or, …
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Say or Tell
Ask him whether or not he knows the man who is teaching in the other room.
The students whom you taught two years ago are here to see you.
I would like to see the man whose child you were teaching.
I asked him if I could take the books which were on his desk.
May I borrow the book which you were reading last night?
The man whose car is in the yard is here to repair the chairs whose legs are broken, isn’t he?
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next and the next
next week, month, etc; the next week, month, etc
Next week, month, etc (without the) is the week, month, etc just after this one. If I am speaking in July, next month is August; in 2016, next year is 2017. The next week, month, etc is the period of seven, thirty, etc days starting at the moment of speaking. On July 15th 2016, the next month is the period from July 15th to August 15th; the next year is the period from July 2016 to July 2017. Compare:
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