During an advanced English class, a student asks about the
difference between these two sentences: (1)“The teacher
stopped talking to the students.” and (2)“The teacher
stopped to talk to the students.”. The trainee teachers give
different interpretations, and you must clarify the semantic
aspects involved.
As a senior English teacher, you are guiding trainee teachers
to analyze semantic nuances in classroom communication,
consider the situation above and judge the following items,
according to English semantics.