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VERBS WITH GERUND OR INFINITIVE - CHOOSE THE RIGHT VERB
Exercise 1
Use the list below to find the best verbs followed by the –ing form and fill the gaps in the right form.
USE EACH VERB ONLY ONCE!(1) You must ________________ spending more money than you have on your account.
(2) Tell the children to ________________ making that noise!
(3) Have you ________________ applying for the post?
(4) Susan decided to do something for her health and ________________ smoking.
(5) Can you ________________ moving to an old farmhouse?
(6) I have ______________ learning the words too long already, I don’t want to ______________
tackling them any longer.
(7) Have you ________________ washing your hair yet?
(8) I can’t ________________ working as a nurse but I would ________________ training
to be a social worker.
(9) Fritz wants to ________________ working on his job although he was 65 last month.
(10) I don’t want to ________________ watching the film on Saturday night.
(11) Silvia ______________ asking the same questions. Why doesn’t she remember the answers?
(12) I have always ________________ listening to jazz.
(13) I don’t ________________ leaving the house when it is so cold.
(14) When Fritz asked Susan what they might do, she ________________ going to a disco.
(15) Preparing a talk may ________________ consulting books from various libraries.
(16) The police didn’t question the boy long before he ________________ stealing the bicycle.Verb list: admit - avoid – consider – consider - delay – enjoy – fancy - finish – give up – go on –
imagine – imagine - involve - keep – miss – put off – stop – suggest.Exercise 2:
Use the list below to find verbs followed by to and infinitive and fill the gaps in the right form :(1) I mustn’t ________________ to answer this inquiry from Messrs. Clark & Simpson.
(2) We have ________________ not to go on holiday this year.
(3) Three students have ________________ to pay their fees so far.
(4) The innkeeper ________________ to send the three men away unless they behaved.
(5) Patrick is still looking for a situation but he ________________ to find something soon.
(6) The boys ________________ to help us with the packing.
(7) The two business men ________________ to negotiate a contract on Friday afternoon.
(8) The owner of the guest house ________________ to have the luggage of the travellers fetched
at the station.
(9) Sheila ________________ to win the first prize for her plans in the competition last year.
(10) Our suppliers ________________ to deliver the glass wool by the end of this week.
(11) I am ________________ to attend a language school in Germany for three months
to improve my German.
(12) The railway company ________________ to make a refund for the ticket because
the passenger was not able to prove that he had returned from London by car.
(13) As Simon had lost his credit card, I ________________ to lend him some money.
(14) Mary has to work hard but she doesn’t ________________ to mind.
(15) Robert heard all we said although he ________________ to be asleep.
(16) I left the house before nine so I ________________ to do all the shopping before eleven o’clock.Verb list: agree – agree - arrange - decide – deserve - fail – forget – hope - manage – offer – plan – pretend – promise – refuse - seem – threaten.
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