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1. Rewrite each sentence using appreciate, deny, enjoy, like or remember, need, deserve and the word in brackets as in the model.

Model: Thanks for taking me to the station. (taken) – I appreciate being taken to the station.

1. I was shown around the school, and I enjoyed it. (being)

2. I don’t remember when they arrested me. (being)

3. He said he liked it when people took him seriously. (taken)

4. Tina said she hadn’t been paid to appear in the play. (having)

5. I don’t remember when they gave me the anaesthetic. (being)

6. Thanks for giving me another chance. (given)

7. I would like to be listened attentively. (being)

8. He should clean his shoes. (cleaning)

9. You have to praise this hard-working student. (praising)

10. You should tidy the office up. (tidying)

2. Use the Gerund of the verb in brackets in any appropriate form.

1. (to speak) without (to think) is (to shoot) without aim.

2. Do you know what is peculiar about the English rule of (to drive)?

3. Excuse me for (to give) you so much trouble.

4. Since Tom was his best friend he helped him without (to ask).

5. He confessed (to forget) that he was to come on Friday.

6. Letters were no use: he had no talent for (to express) himself on paper.

7. The boys were punished for (to break) the window.

8. After (to look) through and (to sort) out the letters were registered and filed.

9. He suddenly stopped (to read). There was no point in (to go on).

10. When they had finished (to write) this letter they read the whole correspondence from beginning to end.

11. It’s no good (to deny) it.

12. I don’t remember (to ask) this question.

13. The boy was afraid of (to punish) and hid himself.

14. She reproached me for (not to keep) my promise.

3. Read and translate the following sentences. State the function of the Gerund.

1. For a woman being needed is everything in life.

2. His request meant going further than I was prepared to go.

3. I remembered learning a rhyme.

4. My perceiving friendship in this way was pretty simplistic.

5. I didn't have a way of getting to the practice.

6. The important part is helping people so that they can live normal lives.

7. He couldn’t face being talked about.

8. He admired his way of doing things very much.

9. He regretted hurting her feelings.

10. You begin learning a language by listening to the new sounds.

11. On arriving at the cottage she found it locked.

12. The bus passed us without stopping.

4. Make sentences with the same meaning by using a Gerund phrase as a subject.

1. It is interesting to learn about other countries.

2. It’s not easy to master a foreign language thoroughly.

3. Our aim is to master English in the shortest time possible.

4. I s it important to be polite to all clients?

5. It is fun to travel by boat.

6. Is it difficult to learn to drive a car?

7. It’s hard work to ask him for help.

8. It’s always been very dangerous to climb the western slope of Everest.

9. It’s obligatory to officially confirm the company’s profits at the end of the fiscal year.

10. It’s easy to talk about having high moral standards but sometimes it’s very difficult to stand by your principles.

11. In some countries it is traditional to pay people to facilitate the passage of a business deal.

12. Today’s businessman frequently meets situations where it is difficult to square his business interests with his moral conscience.