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Verb patterns (2)

Verb + to-infinitive / -ing; verb + (object) + bare infinitive; verb
+ object + to-infinitive / -ing; verb + object / possessive + -ing;
other ,atterns after verbs

Context listening

Eill CR Listen to pan of an interview from
a radio travel programme. The reporter is talking
about his recent visit to the island of Lombok in
Indonesia. Which of these problems did the
reporter encounter on his trip?
shark attack

seasickness
passport left at home
volcanic eruption

missed flight
hurricane
missed boat
stung by jellyfish

cu Listen again and fill in the gaps.
1
rd been so anxious to get into the taxi that I I d forgotten to Pick
it up.
2 outside the harbour for hours.
We were
3 to the coral reefs off the northwest coast.
A number of people
4 in the sea.
When I was younger I used to
5 me across the stomach.
As it swam past I
I really
6 me so well.
7 the amazing sunset, it was almost possible to believe it.
As we
I
8
the camera in my mobile phone, but the quality was pretty poor.
ED Notice that in each space in 1.2 you have written two verbs, and that the second verb has either
a to-infinitive or an -ing form.
In three of these sentences you could use the other form of this verb and still have a correct sentence.
1
Which three?

2
In only one of these three would the sentence have a similar meaning with either a to-infinitive or an -ing
form. Which one?

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