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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 784.

Tell, convince, persuade, remind, warn, command, urge, make, cause, force, order, require, invite, teach, advise, challenge, encourage, instruct, allow, forbid, permit, authorize, hire, train

I allow YOU to go.

MAIN VERBS REQUIRING AN INDIRECT OBJECT BEFORE THE INFINITIVE

Can't stand, can't face, can't help, (don't) mind, be worth, have trouble, have difficulty

Admit, appreciate, consider, discuss, mention, imagine, practice, recommend, suggest

Avoid, escape, deny, dislike, detest, enjoy, miss, recall, resist, resent, risk, tolerate, endure

Finish, give up, stop, quit, leave off, complete, keep (on), resume, delay, postpone, put off

MAIN VERBS TAKING GERUNDS ONLY as direct objects

Try, remember, forget, go on, regret

MAIN VERBS TAKING BOTH WITH CHANGE IN MEANING

Begin, start, continue, cease, like, love, hate, can't bear, prefer, intend, propose, neglect

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES AS OBJECTS (review)

OBJECT (Cont'd)

MAIN VERBS TAKING BOTH WITHOUT CHANGE IN MEANING (some = CVAP)

Exercise 8.1. Fill in the blanks with the infinitive or ing-forms of the indicated verb. Add an object before the infinitive if necessary.

Lisa is an air traffic controller at a busy urban airport that handles hundreds of commercial flights every day. She learned her job while she was in the army, where professionals trained (use)___________________ radar to determine the position and speed of different aircraft. It is important (communicate)___________________ clearly with the pilots of airplanes. Lisa authorizes (follow) __________________ certain flight patterns. She allows (land and take off)__________________, so she has to know the exact position of each plane. She also has to remember (keep)__________________ track of several different planes at the same time. Unless she keeps on (concentrate)__________________and avoids (make) ___________________ any mistakes at all, there might be a serious accident.

Lisa decided (become)___________________ an air traffic controller because it is an exciting, necessary job that pays a good salary. She enjoys (control)___________________the landing and takeoff patterns of planes, and she likes (have)___________________the feeling that she is responsible for the safe operation of the airport, but her job contains a very high level of stress. She has gotten used to (be)__________________ under a lot of pressure, but at any one moment Lisa may be responsible for the lives of hundreds or even thousands of people, and she worries constantly about (make) ___________________ a mistake and (cause) ___________________a crash. Sometimes she imagines (be)____________ responsible for an accident, and wonders how she might feel in that situation. Recently she has started (dream)___________________ about her work. Even though her supervisor requires (take) __________________ a break every two or three hours, Lisa admits (feel)___________________ tense and tired a lot of the time, and some mornings she hates (go)___________ to work. When she finishes (work)___________________, she is often so tense that she has stomach pains and headaches. Lisa's husband encourages (talk)___________________ about the stress and problems of her job, and he would like (spend)___________________ more time (relax) ___________________ with him and their children.

Lisa says that she is used to (work) ___________________ in a stressful situation. Because she knows how (do) ___________________ her job well and gets a good salary, she will continue (work) ___________________ as an air traffic controller for a few more years. However, at some time in the future she intends (find) ___________________ a new career because she hopes (have) ___________________ a more relaxed life.

Exercise 8.2. Choose between the infinitive and the ing-form.

1. 1. I wished . . . quite fair. (to be)

2. 2. I enjoyed . . . to her talk of Viennese society in the days of her youth. (to listen)

3. 3. Jerry was enjoying himself and did not want . . . away. I suggested . . . him and . . . him meet us at the station. (to come, to leave, to let)

4. 4. Everything you've planned . . . is sensible. (to do)

5. 5. Riley offered . . . into town and . . . some coffee. (to drive, to get)

6. 6. He longs . . . down and . . . a quiet country life. (to settle, to live)

7. 7. Kate avoided . . . John alone. (to see)

8. 8. You keep . .. things in Latin and you know I can't understand. (to say)

9. 9. He preceded . . . this by his own story. (to illustrate)

10. 10. Her eyes were full and bright. She did not pretend. . . her nervousness. (to hide)

11. 11. Jack asked for some stationary and set about ... a letter to his son. (to compose)

12. 12. Renny was often dead right, more often than I cared . . . . (to remember)

13. 13. He sat there sullenly and refused . .. . (to answer)

14. 14. I didn't mind . . . about them a bit. (to think)

15. 15. He had just finished . .. up a suitcase. (to strap)

16. 16. He did not hesitate . .. such methods. (to employ)

17. 17. We arranged . . . . (to meet)

18. 18. He stopped . . . and went into the bathroom to turn the water on for the bath. (to whistle)

19. 19. His sister-in-law certainly needed . . . after. (to look)

20. 20. As I grew . . . him I began . . . him. (to know, to like)

21. 21. We can't afford . . . you. (to waste)

22. 22. I can't help . .. Sophy. (to like)

23. 23. I couldn't resist ... such a lovely hat. (to buy)

24. 24. She says she can't imagine not . . . his key in the lock. (to hear)

25. 25. I hadn't understood why, the previous summer, he had given up ... ... Roger. (to attempt, to see)

26. 26. I notice that you took the trouble . . . your picture into all the papers. (to get)

27. 27. I have been meaning . . . you about it. (to ask)

28. 28. He denied . . . anything about the missing document. (to know)

29. 29. You mentioned . . . us a different book. We're nearly finished . . . this one. (to get, to read)

30. 30. You certainly mustn't miss . . . this wonderful film. (to see)

31. 31. Mary tended ... upset by her failures. (to be)

32. 32. Tears filled her eyes and ran down her cheeks. She did not trouble . . . them away. (to wipe)

33. 33. He is considering . . . a book about his war experience. (to write)

34. 34. She put off . . . the news to her father. (to break)

35. 35. Looking back on it, I think it would have been better, if we had never attempted. . . . (to interfere)

36. 36. He got out of bed and prepared . . . . (to shave)

37. 37. I wondered if you felt like . . . out for a dance? (to come)

38. 38. He had made up his mind . . . in Dick. (to confide)

39. 39. I considered . . . the ceiling blue. (to paint)

40. 40. She couldn't go on . . . alone in that great house. (to live)

Exercise 8.3. Analyze the following sentences (subject, predicate, objects):

1. 1. Alice didn't like shaking hands with either of them first.

2. 2. Don't you envy her that poise and assurance?

3. 3. I seemed to think it impossible to cross the river in the dark.

4. 4. He waited for the girl to notice him.

5. 5. The first thing was to get rid of the package, I let the thing slide between the platforms.

6. 6. I could feel, rather than see, his weight moving about the boat

7. 7. I know what you told me. Do you expect me to believe?

8. 8. While I struggled out of my sopping clothes the old woman kept asking me questions.

9. 9. Even now, she could only see herself and wonder how this event would affect her interests.

10. 10. He was seen having tea at his parents' with a very young girl.

Exercise 8.4. Correct mistakes.

1. 1. “I will not sit here and hear such comparisons made,” said she after we finished describing her our new girlfriend.

2. 2. Ask this question to Mungo, and you'll know that his people were written to.

3. 3. But the one revelation that always hurt her was his conception of his father as someone who never remembers being on time.

4. 4. I only say that I disapprove your preferring such company as Mistress Peggoty.

5. 5. Mr.Heng sent a polite verbal reply where advised not to worry about his whereabouts.

6. 6. Mr.Murdstone and I were soon off in spite of it being so difficult to get the house through.

7. 7. She was leaning on the banisters, listening to something and resenting not to be able to leave.

8. 8. She's incapable of deciding probably because she never means hurting anybody.

9. 9. They couldn't be expected to understand that father was the very last person for such thing to happen to.

10. 10. You weren't to have been paid because the assignment was not completed: Jack had to do it over.

Exercise 9.1. Find and analyze attributes.

1. 1. It's a good idea.

2. 2. I know a better way.

3. 3. She was my best friend at school.

4. 4. It was my idea.

5. 5. Look at this girl.

6. 6. Whose little boy are you?

7. 7. There's some milk left.

8. 8. The place was called "The Four Poplars".

9. 9. The second letter came only two days later.

10. 10. It was still called Mother's room.

11. 11. It was a charming forest scene.

12. 12. The young man with the scenic cravat glanced nervously at the girl in the fringed dress.

13. 13. He was the last to learn about it.

14. 14. I have no intention of telling you.

15. 15. The still admiring Joe, while on a business trip, had seen Herbie.

16. 16. The tightly stored tears would squeeze from her eyes as she teetered past on her aching feet.

17. 17. The idea of Debbie taking him seriously never once crossed his mind.

18. 18. There's no place for them to sleep unless we let them have our room.

19. 19. The downstairs closet was their favorite hiding place.

20. 20. We could hear somebody move in the room above.

21. 21. The woman with faded blue eyes turned out to be Jan's mother.

22. 22. All I know is that he is gone.