Exercise 1. Find the gerunds in the following sentences and translate them into Russia.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Give up eating a lot of candy.
I like getting presents.
Would you mind waiting in the hall?
Excuse me for interrupting you.
I’m looking forward to seeing you.
It’s worth going there.
I can’t help telling you the story.
This film is worth seeing.
Driving a car is one of my hobbies.
Travelling abroad can be exciting enough, but just now it is more exciting being here.
This is the right way of doing it.
I’m fond of playing chess.
I was tired of waiting.
She stopped answering my letters and I wondered what the matter might be.
Can you recall having mentioned the fact to anybody?
On being told the news she gave a gasp of surprise.
She denied having been at the station that evening.
Exercise 2. Use the gerund of the verb in brackets.
They denied ………… the money. (steal)
I don’t enjoy ……………. very much. (drive)
Has it stopped …………. yet? (rain)
Why do you keep ………… me questions? (ask)
Please stop ………… me questions. (ask)
One of the boys admitted …………… the window. (break)
Ann was having dinner when the phone rang. She didn’t answer the phone, she just carried on ………….. (eat)
Are you fond of ………… ? (play tennis)
The baby began ………….. in the middle of the night. (cry)
Why do you avoid ………….. me? (see)
We insist on ………….. him there at once. (send)
You never mentioned …………… to them on the subject. (speak)
I don’t remember ever ………….. you. (see)
1 She asked me how many hours a day I watched TV.
2 She asked me not to write a letter to Ann.
3 He asked me what magazines I preferred to read.
4 She said Tom was leaving the next night.
5 My mother asked me if I had had my hair cut.
6 The chief ordered to go to the theatre and ( to) book the tickets.
7 She said Kent had visited many countries in western Europe.
8 I advised her not to drink coffee at night, because she wouldn't sleep.
9 He read that the south of England is warmer than the North.
10 Miranda asked him if he was going to pick up the phone.
Объяснение:
2. Yesterday I woke up at 7 o’clock in the morning
3. Our football team has won this match.
4. My little sister had a big apple for breakfast
5.He sings at every school party
6.My parents bought a new tv yesterday
7. My husband drunk ...
8. Were born
9. Live
10.read
My sister thought me to write letters.
I watched horror film yesterday
My friends brought me flowers two days ago
Bob has lost his copybook and hasn’t done his homework
Vase has fallen down and was broken.
Не понятно, что значат слова where, why, yes/no в 3 задании