Verbs followed by – ing

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Verbs followed by – ing

The following verbs are usually followed by the -ing form:

admit avoid deny

fancy finish go

on hate imagine

keep like love

mind remember stop

 My old boyfriends keep phoning me.

 He admitted stealing the phone.

 I can't imagine living in the country.

A. Choose one of the verbs in the language box to complete these sentences.

1. Do you ____ _______ going to the cinema later?

2. I _______ _____ eating seafood! It makes me sick!

3. Why do they ______ ______ calling you? What do they want?

4. I know where we are. I ____________ going to that beach when I was a child.

5. Can you _______ _____ living in a palace? I can't.

6. Do you ___ _________ opening the window? It's very hot in here.

Verbs followed by the infinitive

The following verbs are usually followed by the infinitive form:

agree dare manage

promise arrange expect

need stay choose

hope offer want

 They agreed to lend us their car.

 Nick dared to take off his clothes.

 We hope to visit Thailand next year.

 She managed to open the door without a key.

A. Choose the correct forms of the verbs in these sentences.

1. Hector promised (take) ___________ Annie to Argentina one day.

2. We decided (leave) ___________ the bar at about midnight.

3. Tom never studies, but he managed (pass) ___________ his exams.

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4. Why does Ben keep (ring) ___________ when he knows Claire doesn't want (talk) ___________ to him?

5. I need (change) ___________ some money so I can finish (pay for) ___________ the tickets.

Contact clauses

In these sentences, the object of the first verb is the subject of the second verb.

 I'm talking to a man who lives in Milan.

 I'm writing down things that are important to me.

In these sentences, the object of the first verb is also the object of the second verb.

 I'm talking to a man who I met in Milan.

 I'm writing down things that I don't like about Hector.

If the object of the first verb is also the object of the second verb, we can leave out the relative pronoun. These are called contact clauses.

 I'm talking about a man I met in Milan.

 I'm writing down things I don't like about Hector.

A. Make one sentence from the two sentences. Leave out the relative pronoun, if you can.

I'm writing a letter to a girl. I met her in Sweden.

I'm writing a letter to a girl I met in Sweden.

1. I met a boy. He lives in Rome.

__________ __________________________________

2. What happened to that ring? You bought it in Peru.

______ ______________________________________

3. There's a man at the TV station. Bridget wants to go out with him.

___________ _________________________________

4. Bridget has an ex-boyfriend called Kevin. He called her this morning.

_____________ _______________________________

5. Hector comes from a country in South America. I visited it last year.

___________ _________________________________