Всем привет с английским!
Task 1. Choose the verbs or phrases which are followed only by the gerund. Make up 7 sentences of your own using a verb + gerund construction and your active vocabulary.
To like, to mind, to suggest, can’t help, to forget, to make, to admit, to avoid, to threaten, to detest, to resist, to get used (to), can’t stand, to let, to mean, to offer, to fancy, to start, to put off, to discuss, to regret, to remember, to look forward(to).
Task 2. Complete the sentences with the required form of the gerund and insert prepositions where necessary.
1. A conviction for larceny is to be allowed only … (to prove) fully that a larceny has actually taken place.
2. He did it … (to give) circumstantial evidence of an exceptionally strong character.
3. They spoke about the importance … (to conceal) the fact from here.
4. She was afraid … (to give) evidence against him.
5. … (to convict) a person of murder this evidence will not be sufficient.
6. French public law has never been codified, and French courts have produced a great deal of case law … (to interpret) codes that become out of date because of social change.
7. In English law, a defendant can avoid guilt … (to injure) someone if he can convince the court that the force he used was reasonable to protect himself in the circumstances.
8. If his lawyer is not here, an individual may be drawn … (to make) misleading statements that could adversely affect his case.
9. ... (to give) any direct testimony, the plaintiff or defendant stays with his lawyer at the counsel’s table and observes the trial.
10. The thief regrets … (to be) so rude to the policeman.
11. After a short break the psychologist continued … (to speak) with young offenders of the Boot Camp.
12. Walking past the living room with an ajar door Mrs Marple could hear the cousins … (to discuss) the last letter from their uncle from Madeira.
