Exercise 1. Find the gerunds in the following sentences and translate them into Russia.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Give up eating a lot of candy.
I like getting presents.
Would you mind waiting in the hall?
Excuse me for interrupting you.
I’m looking forward to seeing you.
It’s worth going there.
I can’t help telling you the story.
This film is worth seeing.
Driving a car is one of my hobbies.
Travelling abroad can be exciting enough, but just now it is more exciting being here.
This is the right way of doing it.
I’m fond of playing chess.
I was tired of waiting.
She stopped answering my letters and I wondered what the matter might be.
Can you recall having mentioned the fact to anybody?
On being told the news she gave a gasp of surprise.
She denied having been at the station that evening.

Exercise 2. Use the gerund of the verb in brackets.
They denied ………… the money. (steal)
I don’t enjoy ……………. very much. (drive)
Has it stopped …………. yet? (rain)
Why do you keep ………… me questions? (ask)
Please stop ………… me questions. (ask)
One of the boys admitted …………… the window. (break)
Ann was having dinner when the phone rang. She didn’t answer the phone, she just carried on ………….. (eat)
Are you fond of ………… ? (play tennis)
The baby began ………….. in the middle of the night. (cry)
Why do you avoid ………….. me? (see)
We insist on ………….. him there at once. (send)
You never mentioned …………… to them on the subject. (speak)
I don’t remember ever ………….. you. (see)

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