My teacher said that "stop to do" had two meanings: quit doing present work to do next work (which is following after the word "do") and pause for a while then continue. I have searched a lot about its meanings but what i got just about the first meaning. Is the second one true?
For examples:
- I stop to play games.
First meaning: i stop doing something in order to play games.
Second meaning: i pause playing games for a while then i continue.
Answer
To put it shortly, the first meaning is correct, but the second one is wrong.
When verb stop is followed by another verb in to-infinitive, it solely means you quit doing something else that you are currently doing in order to perform that new action that you mentioned.
The full expression would be:
to stop doing A in order to do B
To express that second meaning, you would have to use other verb, for example:
I stop doing A and will resume (doing A) later.
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