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XVIII. Comment on the use of the Gerund and the Infinitive in the following quotations. Interpret them and translate into Ukrainian.

1. What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing (Aristotle).

2. Life is one long process of getting tired (S. Butler).

3. The art of pleasing consists in being pleased (W. Hazlitt).

4. The world is a fine place and worth fighting for (E. Hemingway).

5. It’s wiser being good than bad; It’s safer being meek than fierce; It’s fitter being sane than mad (R. Browning).

6. Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken (J. Swift).

7. No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable (A. Smith).

8. Old best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read (F. Bacon).

9. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are (S. Johnson).

XIX. Prove that you are good at story-telling using one of the proverbs. Think over their Ukrainian equivalents.

1. Friendship is not to be bought at a fair.

2. There’s no accounting for tastes.

3. You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.

4. Let bygones be bygones.

5. A lion may come to be beholden to a mouse.

6. Doing is better than saying.

7. Catching fish is not the whole of fishing.

8. What can’t be cured must be endured.

9. A good tale is none the worth for being twice told.

XX. Complete the conversation. Put in a to-infinitive or ing-form.

Matthew: Are we going to have a holiday this year?

Natasha: Didn’t we all decide (spend) our holidays on a Greek island?

Matthew: Lovely. I enjoy (lie) on the beach. I might manage (1)…. (get) a suntan.

Daniel: I’d love a holiday. I can’t wait (2)……….(leave) this place behind.

Emma: I don’t fancy (3)…………(stay) in one place all the time. I really dislike (4)………(sit) on the beach all day.

Natasha: Well, I don’t mind (5)……(tour) around somewhere.

Emma: Matthew, you promised (6)……(go) to Scotland with me. We were planning (7)……. (hire) a car.

Matthew: Scotland’? Are you sure? But I couldn’t face (8)…..(drive) all the time.

Jessica: I’m afraid I can’t afford (9)…..(spend) too much money.

Andrew: And I can’t justify (10) …….(take) all that time off from my studies.

XXI. Study:

1. Some verbs such as want are followed by an infinitive: e.g. I want to see you. Other verbs such as enjoy are followed by a gerund: e.g. I enjoy seeing you.

2. Some verbs that are followed only by the infinitive are:

Ask – demand – learn – forget – promise – refuse – swear – hope – decide – seem – want.

3. Some verbs that are followed only by the gerund are:

Avoid – consider – deny – dislike – dread – enjoy – forgive – keep – miss – risk – suggest.

4. Some verbs can take either the infinitive or the gerund: try – remember – stop.

There can be a difference in meaning between the infinitive and the gerund in sentences with these verbs: e.g. I remembered to see her. [I did not forget that I had to see her.] I remembered seeing you her [I recalled that I had seen her before]

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