Infinitive vs Gerund Exercises - Test 1

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• 1. How do you come to be here? (be)
• 2. That is all I wanted to know. (know)
• 3. Clean tales that all the girls will enjoy reading. (read)
• 4. It seemed beto be a very long way. (be)
• 5. In return for my silence upon a certain matter, you are going to prevent it from passingpasspassingto passto passing. (pass)

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• 6. I never wish seeseeingto see you again. (see)
• 7. I waved an irritated hand and kept on takingtalkingto talk. (talk)
• 8. Thus you avoid taketakeingtakingtalkingto take any of the hard center. (take)
• 9. I seemed rememberrememberedrememberingto remeberto remember that I had. (remember)
• 10. He seems beto be only a man. (be)
• 11. They kept on studingstudystudyingstudyngto study the flight of birds. (study)
• 12. He asked me beto be a friend to him. (be)
• 13. Where could she get it dodonetoto do? (do)
• 14. Imagine him seeseeingseingto seeto seing that young fellow putting her handkerchief in his pocket. (see)
• 15. But I want gogo toto go with you. (go)

• 16. Can you imagine him to wearto wearingwearwearingwearning a frown? (wear)
• 17. That is how I came knoeknowknowingto know her. (know)
• 18. She did not dare to risk loosingloseloseinglosingto lose him. (lose)
• 19. I imagined him lokinglookingto look down from the clouds upon his wretched son, with a countenance of inexpressible horror. (look)
• 20. He paused to think, but he could not see any way to avoid telltellingto tell her the truth. (tell)

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