EXTRA English 23 Truth or Dare
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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.
EXTRA English 23 Truth or Dare
Grammatik und Übungen
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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.
___________ _________________________________