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 PRACTICE ON POINTS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

• Gerund Summary
• Gerund Diagnostic
• Gerund as Subject
• Verb + Gerund
• Verb + Prep Phrase
• Gerund Cls w/Subj
• By + Gerund
• For + Gerund
• Before/After + Gerund
• Sensory Verbs
• Gerund/ Infin Prac1
• Gerund/ Infin Prac2
• Verb + PP Prac 1
• Verb + PP Prac 2
• Verb + PP Prac 3
• By / With Prac
• Parallel Ger Prac
• Gerund Context

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Gerund / Infinitive Practice 2

Verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives

 

 

 

Review verbs that come before:

• gerunds (verb-ing) .  Verbs before Gerunds
• infinitives (to - verb)  Verbs before Infinitives

 

Practice

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1. First, select the verb from that best completes the sentence.
2. Then check your answer.

 

#	YOUR ANSWER	CHECK ANSWER
e.g.	We intended go to go going early.
1.	Chuck had always dreamed about  -- become becoming to become a baseball star.
2.	He was always thinking about -- play playing to play baseball.
3.	More than anything else, he wanted -- play playing to play professional baseball.
4.	He concentrated on -- improve improving to improve his batting.
5.	Every night he insisted on -- play playing to play catch with his dad.
6.	He didn't care about -- do to do doing his homework.
7.	Chuck always looked forward to -- to get getting get together with his team on the weekends.
8.	Every week, he kept -- improving to improve improve his skills.
9.	Chuck's parents objected to his -- being to be be at the baseball diamond all the time.
10.	But they couldn't tell him not -- play playing to play .
11.	They believed in -- let letting to let him follow his heart.
12.	In college, Chuck was asked -- join to join joining the varsity baseball team.
13.	Fortunately, he succeeded in -- graduating to graduate graduate from college.
14.	Unfortunately, he didn't get -- play to play playing on a professional team.
15.	Now, he insists on -- attend to attend attending every Giants game.
16.	He loves (coach) -- coaching coach to coach a Little League team.
17.	Chuck lets his own kids -- play to play playing baseball anytime they want.
18.	He never makes them -- do to do doing their homework on baseball weekends.
19.	He has them -- practice to practice practicing "good sportsmanship".
20.	Chuck will help them -- succeeding to succeed succeed in whatever they choose to do.