Bài giảng Chuyên đề ngữ pháp tiếng Anh - Ôn tập: Gerunds and Infinitives

 Gerunds and Infinitives
 Chapter 14 
 News Story: 
 Cat Tries to Pull a Fast One 
 on Firefighters 
 1 A gerund can be used as the subject of a 
sentence or the object of a verb.
Catching a scared kitty is no easy task. 
 subject
The firefighters tried jacking up the car. 
 object of 
 the verb
 3 PRACTICE 1 
Complete each sentence with a preposition and a 
form of the verb in parentheses.
 1. Firefighters are accustomed (catch) __________to catching cats quickly.
 2. Firefighters usually succeed (rescue) ___________in rescuing lost cats.
 3. They were tired (search) _____________of searching for the kitty.
 4. They were worried (hurt) ______________about hurting the scared cat. 
 5. After 4 hours, no one would blame the firefighters (end) 
 ___________for ending the search for the kitty. 
 6. But the firefighters insisted (find) __________on finding the lost cat. 
 5 -ing form follows certain special expressions.
 have a good time + Verb -ing
 have fun
The firefighters were not having a good time
 searching for the cat.
The firefighters were not having fun searching
 for the cat.
 7 Some verbs are immediately followed 
 by an infinitive. 
The firefighters wanted to find the cat quickly.
 The cat refused to budge.
 want to refuse to intend to
 hope to need to promise to
 plan to offer to seem to
 like to agree to pretend to
 decide to appear to ask to 9 PRACTICE 2 
 Gerund or Infinitive? 
4. In the end, it required three people (catch) 
 _________to catch the cat.
5. The firefighters refused (stop) ________to stop the 
 search for the cat.
6. Finally, they found the cat (hide) ______hiding in 
 their own truck.
 11 Some verbs can be followed by either an 
infinitive or a gerund, but the meaning is 
different.
 Remember Forget Regret Try
Firefighters tried jacking up the car and taking off 
 a wheel.
 (They were able to jack up the car.)
 Firefighters tried to jack up the car and take off 
 a wheel.
 (They were NOT able to jack up the car.)
 13 PRACTICE 3
 Check Your Knowledge
1. Who went (running, to run) after the cat?
2. The men spent too much time (catching, to catch) 
 the cat.
3. They remembered (searching, to search) for a lot of 
 other cats on other rainy days.
4. They caught the cat (hiding, to hide) in the fire 
 truck.
5. They tried (finding, to find) the cat for a long time. 
6. It is dangerous for cats (hurting, to hide) under a 
 car. 15