To allow to do or doing?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Hi, please help me make clear one thing.

What should I use after a verb allow - Infinitive or Gerund - if a direct object is skipped after allow?

For example, This program allows to create or creating new images.

Thank you a lot in advance.

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Hi,
(not)allow doing smth:It is (not) officially permitted.
We don’t allow eating in the class.
Morteza

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So, after allow (not use TO).
After allow (just use DOING). Right?.

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Please allow me to hold that umbrella for you.
They don’t allow smoking in here, and they don’t allow alcohol.

‘Allow’ takes a noun object; therefore, it also takes a gerund. With the indirect object, however, the infinitive is used.
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Thank you guys… :smiley:

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I see, Thanks !

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One more thing i want to share you: :lol:
ALLOW = PERMIT
allow + Object + TO Inf. ( My siste allowed me to use her computer)
allow +(without an Object) V-ING ( My sister allowed using her computer)
be allowed (passive) + TO Inf. (I was allowed to use my sister’s computer) :lol:

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This seems very odd English to me.
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Maybe it’s very odd to you, but whoever learns English in a school has to know this. :wink:

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I seriously doubt that anyone ‘has to’ know that, Hothu. It is not used in English with personal reference (the personal pronoun ‘her’, etc). You will see this structure only for impersonal permission or restriction, in the passive or without personal reference:

Skateboarding is not allowed in the mall.
The management does not allow pets.

Personal reference requires the infinitive: My sister allowed me to use her computer.
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Thnx thnx thnx a lot…You really cleared my doubts about it. Thanks again :smiley:

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Ireland doesn’t allow smoking in bars. (Smoking, a thing is in the past, real, or concrete.)
Ireland doesn’t allow people (in order) to smoke in bars. (to smoke, (in order) to do something in the future, sometime things are unreal or abstract!!!)
*** Smoking is a object!
*** People is a object!
So, Allow always takes an object, right? To + infinitive = object or adverb, that’s it!
(I loved Vietnamese when I was born!)

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Smoking is not an object. ‘To smoke’ is very much a verb where I come from.