- •Gerunds as subject
- •Sentence patterns with gerund as subject
- •Exercise 3. Possessives in Gerund Phrases as Subject
- •Exercise 4. Test your knowledge of proverbs.
- •Gerund as direct object
- •Remember!
- •Remeber!
- •Smth needs doing
- •Smth needs to be done
- •Smb needs to do
- •Exercise 6. Make sentences with worth.
- •Exercise 8. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 9. Using Possessives with Gerunds as Direct Object
- •In informal English objective forms of (pro)noun are commonly used with -ing instead of possessives
- •Gerund as object of a preposition
- •Remember!
- •Smb is used to doing----- is in the habit of doing smth
- •Smb used to do smth ----- did smth in the past
- •Exercise 10. Complete the sentences with prepositions and gerund
- •Write the correct preposition and to put the verb into the correct form. Use the verb in brackets at the end of each sentence.
- •Exercise 12. Change direct speech into reported speech. Begin each of your sentences in the way shown.
- •Exercise 14. Read these situations and write three sentences with used to as in the example.
- •Exercise 15. Read these situations and write a sentence with be/get used to.
- •Exercise 16. Put the verb into the correct form, -ing or infinitive (I am used to doing or I used to do).
- •Exercise 17. Open the brackets. Use the appropriate forms of the gerund:
- •Exercise 18. Fill in the blanks with prepositions.
- •Exercise 20. Translate into English:
- •Exercise 21. The Fountain of Youth
- •Gerund as attribute
- •Sentence patterns with gerund as attribute
- •Exercise 22. Write the correct preposition and to put the verb into the correct form. Use the verb in brackets at the end of each sentence.
- •Exercise 23. Complete the sentences using gerunds.
- •Exercise 24. Translate into English
- •Gerund as adverbial modifier
- •Exercise 25. Read a sentence and then write a second sentence with the same meaning using a preposition.
- •Exercise 26. Complete the sentences using gerunds.
- •Exercise 27. Translate into English.
- •Gerund as part of a compound verbal predicate
- •Verbs followed by an infinitive or gerund with a difference in meaning
- •Exercise 31. Practice using troublesome verbs
- •Exercise 32. Read a sentence and write a second sentence with the same meaning. Begin your sentence in the way shown.
- •Exercise 33. Make your own sentences. Complete each sentence using -ing.
- •Exercise 34. Review of Troublesome Verbs
- •Exercise 35. Complete these sentences in any appropriate way using either the to-infinitive or the -ing form of the verb in brackets. If both forms are possible, give them both.
- •Exercise 36. Put the verb in the brackets after the verb «to like» into the correct form
- •Exercise 37. Here is some information about Tom when he was a child.
- •Exercise 38. Your friend has some problems and you have to be helpful. For each problem write a question with try.
- •Exercise 40. Make sentences with afraid. Read each situation and then use the words in brackets to write your sentence.
- •Exercise 43. Complete these sentences with either a to-infinitive or an -ing form. Choose an appropriate verb. Sometimes more than one verb is possible.
- •Using the perfect form of gerunds Exercise 44. Read this police report on a witness questioned about a robbery. Fill in the blanks by making gerunds in the perfect form from the verbs given.
- •Using the passive form of gerunds Exercise 45. Complete the sentences using active and passive gerunds.
- •Exercise 46. Complete the following article by filling in the blanks with the passive form of gerunds made from the verbs given in parentheses. (Use the verb be in the passive gerunds.)
- •Exercise 47. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 48. Complete the sentences using active and passive gerunds.
- •Exercise 49. Complete the sentences with one of the expressions mentioned above
- •Compare gerund to verbal noun
- •Exercise 50. Analyze the -ing forms in the sentences below. State which of them are gerunds and which verbal nouns:
- •Exercise 51. Analyze the -ing-forms stating whether they are gerunds or verbal nouns.
- •Reviewing Exercise 52. Identify the forms and functions of the Gerund
- •Exercise 53. Retirement Communities
- •Exercise 54. Replace the italicized clauses by gerund. Use prepositions where necessary:
- •Exercise 55. State the syntactic functions of the gerund. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Exercise 56. Complete the sentences using the gerund from the following list:
- •Exercise 57. Complete the following sentences using gerund.
- •Exercise 58. Find the gerund and translate the sentences from English into Russian
- •Exercise 59. Fill in the blanks with prepositions where necessary:
- •Exercise 60. Use the gerund from the following list as:
- •Exercise 61. Complete the following sentences using the gerund as:
- •Exercise 62. Translate into English using the gerund as:
- •Exercise 63. Replace the italicised parts of the sentence or clauses by gerundial phrases:
- •Exercise 64. Analyze the syntactic functions of the gerund. Translate into Russian.
- •Exercise 66. Use the required form of the gerund of the verb in brackets.
- •Exercise 67. Use the required form of the gerund and insert prepositions where necessary.
- •Exercise 68. Change the construction of the sentences using the gerund.
- •Exercise 69. Translate the sentences into English using gerunds.
- •Exercise 70. Translate into English:
- •Exercise 72. Translate into English:
- •Exercise 73. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 74. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 75. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 76. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 77. All Work and No Play
- •Exercise 80. Editing
- •Exercise 80. Personalization
- •Exercise 81. Translate into English using gerund.
- •Exercise 82. Translate into English.
- •Reference
- •Contents
- •Verbs followed by either an infinitive or a gerund with no difference in meaning 19
- •Verbs followed by an infinitive or gerund with a difference in meaning 21
Exercise 47. Translate into English.
Model:
Он требовал, чтоб они ему немедленно заплатили.
He insisted on their paying him at once.
But:
Она требовала, чтобы ей немедленно заплатили.
She insisted on being paid at once.
Я сделаю все до того, как он вернется. 2. Ты не боишься, что тебя увидят? 3. Я не вижу большой беды, если он пропустит одну лекцию. 4. Она извинилась за то, что дети так шумели. 5. Я отвечаю за то, чтобы все было в порядке. 6. Кто за то, что все сделать в воскресенье? 7. Кто за то, чтобы я сделал все в воскресенье? 8. Терпеть не могу возражать и спорить. 9. Терпеть не могу, когда ты возражаешь и споришь. 10. Закройте, пожалуйста, дверь. 11. Ничего, если я закрою дверь? 12. Он привык оставаться с бабушкой. 13. Он привык, что Джек остается с ним. 14. Она была так благодарна за то, что ее взяли тоже. 15. Она так была благодарна за то, что мы ее взяли с собой. 16. Он ушел, не попрощавшись. 17. Он ушел так, что мы этого не заметили. 18. Я не могла не видеть его. 19. Я не могла помешать ему видеть вас. 20. Мне нравится, когда ты так говоришь.
Exercise 48. Complete the sentences using active and passive gerunds.
1. Does he prefer (кататься на коньках или на лыжах)? 2. Did you enjoy (смотреть игру)? 3. He is in the habit of (вставать рано).4. Excuse me for (прервать вас). 5. Is the film worth (смотреть)? 6. Has he finished (работать)? 7. I remember (что разговаривал с ним). 8. Не dreams of (поехать в Африку). 9. The translation needs (редактировать). 10. Mу friend is thinking of (продать дом). 11. Your son looks forward to (встретить этого человека). 12. You are fond of (читать), aren't you? 13. Who is responsible for (украшать зал)? 14. I am used to (чтобы меня уважали). 15. We are tired of (нам говорят одно и тоже). 16. Does any of you feel like (пойти в кино)? 17. Не stopped (курить) а week ago. 18. Why does he avoid (чтобы его видели)? 19. She went for a walk instead of (делать уроки). 20. Не went away without (посмотреть на меня). 21 What else did you do besides (осмотреть телевизор)? 22. Не put off (поехать в отпуск) because he was too busy. 23.Do you have any objections to (чтобы вам рассказали эту историю). 24. Не objected to (быть посланным в командировку) 25. I don’t mind (чтобы мне говорили, что делать.26. What's your idea of (организовать эту встречу)?
GO +GERUND FOR ACTIVITIES
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to go shopping to go swimming to go skiing to go fishing to go climbing to go sailing to go riding to go sightseeing |
Why don’t you come sailing with us??
I’m going skiing next year.
I have to go shopping this morning.
Exercise 49. Complete the sentences with one of the expressions mentioned above
Barry lives by sea and he has got a boat, so he often goes ______
There’s plenty of snow in the mountains so we’ll be able to go ______
It was a very hot day, so we ______in the river.
Margaret likes horses. She often ______
The shops are shut now. It is too late to ______
Compare gerund to verbal noun
The Gerund:
has tense and voice forms; so the forms being done, having done, having been done can not be nouns,
can take a direct object; so an “-ing” form followed by a direct object (reading a letter) can not be a noun,
can be modified by an adverb; so an “-ing” form modified by an adverb (reading fast) can not be a noun,
can be part of an aspective verbal predicate; so “-ing” forms following the verbs to begin, to stop, to go on, to keep, to continue are mostly gerunds.
The Verbal Noun:
can be used in the plural,
can have an article,
can be followed by a prepositional phrase in an attributive function,
can be modified by an adjective, a demonstrative pronoun or an indefinite pronoun.