GERUNDS
AND INFINITIVES
Task 1:
Click on this link to
get more practice on the use of gerunds and infinitives. Finish two exercises;
repeat them till you get them all right.
Task 2:
Complete the text using the correct form
of the verb in brackets.
Farmer Jones met Jane when he was just a
young man. He couldn’t help (1 falling) in love with her immediately and asked
her to marry him. She said yes although she knew it would mean (2 getting) up
early to milk the cows for the rest of her life. “Love means never (3 having)
to get up early to milk the cows”, said Farmer Jones, and explained that he
would continue (4to get) up early to milk the cows so Jane could sleep late
every day. Everything went well until they tried (5to increase) their profits
by buying some chickens. The first night, a fox ate one of the chickens. Farmer
Jones decided (to6 build) a fence to protect the chickens. But the ground was
too hard so he couldn’t. He tried (to7 use) an axe to break the ground but it
was much too hard. So he went to the local shop and tried (8to buy) a gun. But
he didn’t have any identification so he couldn’t buy one. He tried (9to borrow)
one from his neighbors but they were all worried about the fox too. “I regret
not (10 buying) one when I had those rabbit problems”, he told Jane. So Jane
went to the shop and bought a gun. That night she tried (11to stop) the fox. At
first she tried (12to scare) the fox by shooting into the air but it didn’t
work. So she tried (13to hit) the fox but she missed. She called her husband
and he ran after the fox to try (14to catch) it but he wasn’t fast enough. They
tried (15 shouting) at the fox and they tried (16 throwing) things at it and
they tried (17 leaving) other food for the fox but nothing worked. Soon they
had only 1 chicken left. They tried (18 asking) their neighbors for help and
one of their neighbors told them to try (19 putting) tiger dung on the ground.
So they went to the local zoo to try (20 buying) some tiger dung. They put the
dung on the ground and they never saw the fox again.
Task 3
Answer the questions based on the
summaries below. Use a gerund, an infinitive, or a simple form in your answer.
One Life
to Live
Maggie, who teaches children at a school
for the deaf, meets Max when she comes to Llanview to visit her cousin, Andrew.
Max, a friend of Andrew’s, is a widower with one-year-old twins. After Maggie
spends some time with the twins, she suspects that one of them, Frankie, is
partially deaf. She tells Max that he must take Frankie for testing. Max
refuses to believe that his son is deaf and tells Maggie to stay out of his
family’s business. Maggie, who grew up with a deaf brother, pursues the matter,
even setting up an appointment for Frankie without Max’s knowledge. When Max
finds out about the appointment, he is furious at Maggie.
a.
Why
did Maggie come to Llanview?
She came to
visit her cousin.
b.
Why
is Max angry at Maggie?
Max is angry at
Maggie to tell him that his son is deaf.
c.
What
is Maggie determined to do?
Maggie determined to book
an appointment for Frankie without Max’s knowledge.
Task 4:
Follow the same pattern, now write a
short paragraph with the same title and make sure to use a gerund,
to-infinitive or infinitive without to in your short story. Ask a friend to
edit your work.
Last weekend, my daughter and I had plan
on going to TD bank. I‘d like to apply a
credit card for myself because my card was cancel
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