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5 Complete a health care worker's statements. Use the words given. Put the words in the
correct order. Use the infinitive form once in each sentence.

1. ask/ people / we / be patient
We ask people to be patient. in the waiting room.

2. follow / my patients / would like / I

their doctors’ orders.

3. everyone /I/ stop smoking / advise

4. our patients / we / exercise / encourage

every day.

5. avoid / advise / we / them

certain foods.

6. be careful / older people / need

about their diet.

7. not worry/I/urge/ our patients

8. people /I/ not lose / remind

their sense of humor.

6.5 Verbs Followed by a Gerund or Infinitive without a Change in Meaning

1. Some verbs can be followed by a gerund or | began exercising regularly last year.
an infinitive with no or almost no difference in | began to exercise regularly last year.
meaning. These verbs include: begin, (no?)
bother, can’t stand, continue, hate, like, love, Don’t bother making dinner. We'll go out tonight.
prefer, start. Don’t bother to make dinner. We'll go out tonight.
2. You can use prefer to compare two activities
in the following ways:
+
a. prefer gerund + fo + gerund/noun a. | prefer swimming to running.
+
b. prefer infinitive + rather fhan + verb b. | prefer to swim rather than run.

Complete the exercises.

Rewrite the sentences. Change the gerund to infinitives Gentences 1-4) and the infinitives to
gerunds (sentences 5-8),

1. I can’t stand staying in bed all day long when I’m sick.

|lcan’t stand to stay in bed all day long when I'm sick.

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