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A. To take the subway often makes me feel like I'm trapped in an aquarium.
B. Taking the subway often makes me feel like I'm trapped in an aquarium.

I want to know which sentence is correct. Some say 'To take' can't be the answer but some say the two words are interchangeable each other in this sentence.

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Sometimes It is very difficult for us (non native speaker) to understand the difference between infinitive form and gerund form.

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The second is correct. The first could/should be written in the subjunctive as follows:

To take the subway would make me feel trapped as (if I was) in an aquarium

The second is describing a regular activity (i.e. it is describing an feeling that the narrator actually feels) whereas the first conveys something a little more conditional/theoretical ("if I were to do X, then Y would follow...")

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