Gerund and Infinitive Test

I. Combine each pair of sentences with a gerund.

1. I don't approve of (it). They spent the students' money. ______________________________________________________________________

2. We depended on (it). Tom is able to take care of himself. _________________________________________________________________

3. I hated (it). I had to take this test. _________________________________________________________________

4. He denied (it). He was late for class. _________________________________________________________________

5. Sue was worried by (it). Her husband smokes so much. _________________________________________________________________

II. Fill the correct forms of the verbs below:

1. She hates (walk) _________________ along at night.

2. They wanted (make) _________________ us (work) ________________ all day without (give) ________________ us lunch.

3. We took for him every day, but we keep (miss) ________________ him.

III Form sentences using the words in ()s and the sentences given:

1. He doesn't enjoy (drive, night) _________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

2. I look forward to (see, you, next week) _______________________ _________________________________________________________________

3. (he, return, money) surprised the police. _____________________ _________________________________________________________________

4. He was finally permitted (leave, country) _____________________ _________________________________________________________________

5. Mrs. Smith lets (children, stay up, late, Saturday night) _________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________

6. The child enjoys (listen, fairy tales) _____________________ ___________________________________________________________

7. I expect (see) him soon _______________________________________

8. We had (carpenter, build, large cabinet) __________________

9. I can't understand (they rejected, advice, their lawyer) ________ ___________________________________________________________________ _ ________________________________________________________________

10. The teacher made (all poor students, take, test, again) ___________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

11. They are preparing (go, Africa) _______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ _

12. She is always complaining (have) too much work to do. _________ _ _____________________________________________________________________

13. He was warned (not, come home, so late) _________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

14. After their quarrel, they stopped (talk, each other) ________________ __________________________________________________________________________

15. (criticize, by anyone) hurts his feelings. _____________________________ __________________________________________________________________________

Reduced Forms of And and Or

PART A: And Listen to the following reductions.

John and I Coffee and tea Bill and Mary

(John -n- I) (cofee -n- tea) (Bill -n- Mary)

French fries and a coke come and see

(French fries -n- a coke) (come -n- see) -----------------------------------------------------------------------

PART B: Or Listen to the following reductions.

Bill or Gill this morning or this afternoon

(Bill -er Gill) (this morning -er this afternoon)

a hamburger or a cheeseburger this way or that way

(a hamburger -er a cheeseburger) (this way -er that way)