Appendix 4 Gerunds and infinitives

Verbs + -ing VERBS: admit, avoid, consider, deny, delay, dislike, enjoy, excuse, fancy, finish,
give up, involve, keep (on), miss, postpone, practise, prevent, resist, risk
PHRASES: it is worth, it’s no use, feel like, look forward to, there is no point (in),
to be used to, to be accustomed to,
can’t stand (bear)/help/resist
Verbs + can’t afford to do, used to do sth (cos robili ale taraz nie robimy)
infinitive
Verbs + stop, regret, remember, forget, like, hate, go on
-ing/infinitive
Bare infinitive Let sb do sth, make sb do sth, had better do sth, see/hear sb do (doing sth)
He keeps talking two hour

They want to start traning their staf

They want to start to train their

We started to do smoke (zatrymalismy)

We started to doing smoke (calkowicze nie palimy)

Exercise 1.
Translate the sentences applying verbs and phrases contained in the table above.

1. Ona żałuje, że opuściła szkołę tak szybko.

She worry that leaving her school so soon

2. Jesteśmy przyzwyczajeni do pracy przez sześć dni w tygodniu.

We are used to working in six days a week

3. Kiedyś (użyj czasownika ‘use’ w odpowiedniej formie) odbywaliśmy szkolenia dwa razy w
tygodniu, teraz uważamy, że to nie ma sensu spotykać się tak często.

4. Niestety, nie stać nas na zakup tej najnowszej technologii.

Now cant to buying this new technology.

5. W nawiązaniu do waszego pisma, prosimy o rozważenie zapłacenia tego odszkodowania.

About our list, to excuse paying this compesation

6. Wybaczcie nam, że przyjeżdżamy tak późno.

7. Jesteśmy przekonani, że warto zainwestować w tę kampanię reklamową.

We are convinsed that warm investing in the compaing advertising

 8. To rozwiązanie wiąże (użyj czasownika ‘involve’) się z przebudową całego programu.
This solution involves recostructing the all program

9. Nie ma sensu obniżać naszych cen.

There no point lovering ower prises

10. Nie mógł znieść tego, że kwestionowaliśmy przedstawione przez niego liczby.

Coudn’t stand this that

Exercise 2.
Translate the pairs of exemplary sentences into Polish.

 ‘The manager went on talking about the new catalogue till the Director’s arrival.’
 ‘The manager stopped talking about the new catalogue and went on to tell us about
advertising in the national press.’
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 ‘I regret employing her in our company.’
 ‘I regret to inform you that you have lost your job Ms Useless.’
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 ‘I saw him doing this calculation’ widzialem jak on robil obpiczenia
 ‘I saw him do this calculation.’ Widzialem jak on skonczyl obliczenia
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 ‘The driver stopped using this road.’
 ‘The driver stopped to study the map.’
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 ‘I forgot to invoice them for the goods.’
 ‘I shall never forget searching for them.’
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 ‘We paid him for delivering the machine.’
 ‘We paid him to deliver the machine.’

Exercise 3
Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms.

a. We saw them (discuss) the problem in the office but I don’t know if any solution was reached.
b. I heard Jack (tell) him to (stop) (use) this computer programme.
Telling stop using
c. Jack (regret) (offer) a discount of 20% to the first customer for these tyres. They could have been
sold at their original price.
Regrets offering
d. I must remember (remind) the assistant (call) the freight forwarder.
Remind called
e. The company won’t pay for (deliver) these goods since most of them have been damaged.
Delivering
f. We told him we were being disturbed(przedskazac) but he decided (go on) (praise) the cosmetics.
To Go on praising
g. First he talked about the new packaging and then he (go on) (talk) about the backlog( zaleglosc).
Went on talking