please, I'm confusing now

[caijq]

I read a sentence recently
"gear its research towards practical applications"
In English grammar, the word 'gear' here is a verb. so my question is why not 'gearing'.
Usually, Verb as a subject should be add ing, right?

[Josef Essberger]

I read a sentence recently
"gear its research towards practical applications"
In English grammar, the word 'gear' here is a verb. so my question is why not 'gearing'.
Usually, Verb as a subject should be add ing, right?

Is this a sentence? "gear its research towards practical applications"

It doesn't look like a sentence because it doesn't start with a capital letter and doesn't end with a punctuation mark (.!?).

Let's assume that it really is a sentence:
Gear its research towards practical applications.

In this case "Gear" is a verb used as an imperative. To issue an imperative we use the base verb - no need to add -ing or anything else. (Stop! Be quiet! Please sit down. Follow me.)

But we can also imaging this random string of words that you have given us (ie without context) with gearing instead of Gear, for example:
You can achieve that by gearing its research towards practical applications.

Context matters

PS: The subject of your post should be "I'm confused now" NOT "I'm confusing now"

[caijq]

Thank you teacher joe.