English Grammar with Kudjo. Part 3. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых.
dogs ***** arguing because of it.
a stop
b would stop
c stopped
8 While Kudjo is sleeping, Chilly can hardly wait for him in the rain. He’d rather Kudjo ***** as soon as possible.
a woke up
b would wake up
c wake up
9 It is drizzling and chilly. Chilly wishes it ***** drizzling.
a didn’t stop
b had stopped
c would stop
10 It’s high time Kudjo *****!
a would get up
b got up
c will get up
EXERCISE 12
Translate the story:
Куджо и Чилли решили не брать девчонок с собой на разведку в пансионат. Если бы они их взяли, то Луна и Куба всю дорогу бы болтали о пустяках и отвлекали их от серьезных мужских разговоров. И вообще, Куджо и Чилли приняли решение разузнать все самим, так как история с пансионатом казалась им какой-то мутной и подозрительной. Лучше будет, если девочки будут находиться как можно дальше от подобных расследований. Куджо и Чилли отправились в путь на рассвете, когда девчонки еще спали. Если бы Луна и Куба узнали о их планах, они бы точно увязались за ними. Если они будут потом ругаться и обижаться (а они точно будут), Чилли придумает какое-нибудь оправдание. Что-нибудь гениальное и простое, как например: «Ой, совсем забыли разбудить.» или «Погода была такая мерзкая, а вы так сладко спали, что мы решили съездить без вас.»
Как бы там ни было, Луна и Куба еще крепко спали в теплой комнате, а Куджо и Чилли уже месили лапами грязь по дороге к пансионату.
Куджо был абсолютно уверен, что он прекрасно помнит туда дорогу, но они шли и шли вот уже несколько часов, но ни озера, ни дома видно не было. Если бы Куджо не был там сам два раза до этого дня, он бы подумал, что пансионат ему просто приснился.
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Unit 7
The Gerund
There are three non-finite verb forms (verbals): the infinitive, the gerund and the participle.
The gerund is a common part of speech that most of us use every day, whether we know it or not.
For example, in the sentence Luna loves shopping.
«shopping’ is gerund
Gerunds are words that are formed with verbs but act as nouns.
Gerunds are formed from verbs by adding ING: go – going; play – playing; talk – talking. Gerunds can be formed from most verbs (except modal verbs).
Whenever there are two verbs together, one right after the other, the second verb must be in either the gerund form or the infinitive form.
What I mean is, we can never say
The second verb has to change, and the first verb dictates what form the second verb will be. To make these sentences correct, we have to say She wanted to go. or They enjoy running.
But why? And why can’t we say, She wanted going?
The simplest answer is, because there are certain rules we have to follow. Some verbs must be followed by gerunds.
Thus, we say Kudjo enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles. and we can never say
The list of the verbs that are followed by gerunds is not so big. The most common are:
love, like, dislike, hate, enjoy, prefer, finish, avoid, admit, confess to, consider, continue, deny, discuss, keep (=continue), look forward to, feel like, can’t help, imagine, fancy, miss, mind (in questions and negative sentences), can’t stand, object to, quit, pracrise, risk, spend, suggest, understand, etc.
EXERCISE 1
Find the proper verb and put it into the form of gerund: chat, take, get up, eat, get, look for, see, go, follow, gossip, stay, lie
1 Kudjo and Chilly spent all the morning ***** the boarding house.
2 Luna enjoys ***** and the girls spent all the night *****.
3 In the morning Cuba felt like ***** in bed till the evening.
4 But she couldn’t help ***** to join Luna for breakfast.
5 She knows Luna can’t stand ***** alone.
6 After breakfast Cuba and Luna were looking forward to ***** Kudjo and Chilly but they didn’t come.
7 Cuba found the message from Chilly, where he admitted ***** to the boarding place without them.
8 Luna and Cuba objected to ***** at home while the boys were having an adventure in the boarding house.
9 Luna suggested ***** Kudjo and Chilly.
10 Luna and Cuba will risk ***** into trouble if they go to this place on their own.
11 They prefer ***** a risk to feeling bored at home.
EXERCISE 2
Make up the sentences about our main characters using given verbs followed by the gerund:
For example,
Luna /