Group Flashcards
*TRY
I ___ (try/write) with my left hand. (made an effort to do so)
I ___ (try/write) with my left hand. (I was curious about the result)
I TRIED TO WRITE with my left hand.
I TRIED WRITING with my left hand.
• VERB + OBJECT + INFINITIVE
someone ___ to do something
advised me
allowed me
encouraged me
expected me
forbade me
forced me
helped me
invited me
persuaded me
preferred me
reminded me
told me
wanted me
• IT’S NO USE/WORTH
It’s no use/worth + verb with…
ING:
It’s no use/worth waiting
•IT’S TIME
It’s time ___ (infinitive + verb)
It’s (about) time ___ (subject + verb)
It isn’t as if/though ___
It’s time to go
It’s about time we left/we were leaving
It isn’t as if/though this were my first time/he didn’t know
HERE/THERE + INFINITIVE
•I’m not here/there ___ pass judgment
•I’m not here/there TO pass judgement
NOUN/PRONOUN/ADVERB + INFINITIVE
• Is there anywhere ___ put it?
• There is nothing ___ worry about
• You’ve got somewhere ___ stay tonight
• There isn’t much ___ do
TO
REMEMBER
• you remember ___ (do) smth AFTER you’ve done it
• you remember ___ (do) smth BEFORE you do it
• DOING
• TO DO
GO ON
- continue with the same thing
- do or say something new
- GO ON DOING
- GO ON TO DO
I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE DONE SOMETHING
- I would like to ___ ___ (see) her.
- We’d like to ___ ___ (go) away.
- I would hate to ___ ___ (be) there.
- HAVE SEEN
- HAVE GONE
- HAVE BEEN
PREFER AND WOULD RATHER
- what you prefer in general: to or ing?
- both are right
COMPARISON WITH PREFER
- I prefer something ___ something else
- I prefer ___ something to ___ something else
- I prefer ___ (do) something ___ ___ do something else
- to
- doing / doing
- to do / rather than
WOULD PREFER
- what somebody prefers in a general or specific situation?
- with to or ing?
- what somebody prefers in a SPECIFIC situation
- with to “I would prefer to drive”
I’D RATHER YOU DID SOMETHING
- I ___ ___ you ___ (drive) (I would prefer this)
- I ___ ___ you ___ (do) something
- I ___ you didn’t tell it
- I would rather you drove
- I would rather you do something
- I rather you didn’t tell it
PROPOSITION
- if a preposition is followed by a verb (interested in ___ (dance) ), the verb ends with…
- ing (interested in dancing)
if before, after and without are followed by a verb, the verb ends with…
- before ___ (go) out.
- ing
- before going out
