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After some verbs we use -ing forms.

Some of these verbs are: keep (on) (= 6en11nuei 'not stop'), finish, stop, give up (='stopi for habits), go,
con't help (= tan't stop myself '), spend (time), mind, suggest, practise, enjoy.
I con't help feeling unhappy. Do you mind shoring a room? Alex has gone swimming.
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) We enjoy ..f!qb.i*9... tennis in the morning. (p/ay)
1 Has Julia finished her photos? (take)
2 Robert's given up sweets. (eot)
3 'Where's Helen?' 'She's gone ...........'(shop)
4 I have to practise so I can pass my test. (drive)
5 Alec suggested at the supermarket. (stop)
6 On Sunday I spent three hours in the garden. (work)

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He can't help She enjoys ./ They've just finished He's given up They're going
All that week, it kept She's practising She's suggesting / lt's just stopped

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We use -ing forms after love,like, (not) mind (='(not) dislike'), dislike, hate.

r' Put in -ing forms of the verbs in the box.

cook eat get up / play shop study wash watch watch wear work

> I hate ..99;P:r*9.*P .. in the winter before the sun is up.

1 George dislikes ... dishes, so he often eats out.
2 I don't like playing baseball, but I like .................... it.
3 ldon'tmind.......... lateif mybossasksme.
4 Joe's two-year-old sister loves ... with her toys in the bath.
5 Jenny and her sister like ... each other's clothes.
6 When I was at school, I hated ... history.
7 I like ... nature programmes on TV.
8 I hate ... in supermarkets.
9 Myfatherlikes........... ..,andweall |ike......... .......,sowegowell together.

Write about ten things you love/hate etc doing. Use expressions from the box or
write about other things.

cooking dinner for friends dancing until 1 a.m. eating out with friends getting up early
listening to loud music lying on a sunny beach reading novels swimming in the ocean
travelling to new places walking in the mountains walking in the rain watching old films

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After love, like and hofe we can also use infinitives with to with the same meaning.
Ilove to sing. = I love singing. Rachel likes to go out / going out with friends.
Mum hatesto cook/ cooking on on electric cooker.
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forms (for exam ple I am, do not) are possible. Normally both are correct.