The Infinitive, Past Participle and the “-ing” form
(Revision)
Exercise 1 Open the brackets, putting the verbs in the correct forms.
1. You can find out this bank’s phone number by ( to look) in the directory.
2. I was the next (to speak) on the topic of the assembly meeting.
3. Last year our committee attempted (to draw up) the new safety policy.
4. The growth in multinational corporations (to manufacture and trade) on a worldwide basis has led to the growth in the overseas operations of major banks over the last twenty years.
5. (to earn) profits cannot be the responsibility of business, because its main exercise is to create organizations with a real commitment to the community.
6. He was the first (raise) this question at the conference.
7. The necessary information is (to provide) by the representative of Council for the period in question.
8. This is a problem you should (to solve) by yourself, otherwise you’ll get in trouble.
9. There is nothing for us (to add). These meanings are (to handle) in, and (to modify) through an interpretive process, used by the person in dealing with the things s/he encounters.
10. It is not a question you may (to laugh) at.
11. In (to come) to a decision about this case we considered the following points (to regard) social issues.
12. There is a need (to adopt) multi-sectoral approaches (to involve) many levels of intervention and activities.
Exercise 2 Think of the word which best fits each space. Study the table above. Make use of it and add to it.
1. The five-year period has ran from the date of … the problem, and care needs to be taken if you decide to change your mind.
(A) solving
(B) having solved
(C) being solved
(D) having been solved
2. It does not make sense to deny that there is a need … the situation in a local community.
(A) to improve
(B) improving
(C) being improved
(D) to have improved
3. The talks on … a $100 thousand credit line to support social programmes are under way.
(A) having provided
(B) providing
(C) provided
(D) being provided
4. “What ... that someone from the firm ought ... an opinion of the damage?”
(A) ... makes you assume ... to go up and give to us ...
(B) ... makes you think ... to go up and give us ...
(C) ... makes you thinking ... go up and give us ...
(D) ... make you think ... to go there and give us ...
5. Do ... somewhere a little more forward-looking! Or I ... die!
(A) ... let’s us go ... would rather
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(B) ... lets go ... would sooner
(C) ... let’s go ... would rather to
(D) ... let’s go ... would rather die
6. Mr.Edwards ... for his staff.
(A) had sometimes had to take troublesome decisions but he is assumed to be caring and concerned
(B) sometimes had to make unpopular decisions but he is known to be caring and concerning
(C) has sometimes had to make tough decisions but he is known to be caring and concerned
(D) has sometimes to take strong decisions but he is know to be caring and concerning
7. The social bonds that connect people help … us from … deviance.
(A) to keep … committing …
(B) keeping … committing …
(C) to keep … to committing …
(D) keep … to commit …
Exercise 3. Choose the correct way of completing each sentence.
1. As a rule, senior vice-presidents are responsible (to assist/for assisting) heads of various departments.
2. The adoption of the law (to insure/on insuring) private individuals’ deposits is one of the key elements of banking reform in the Russian Federation.
3. (To save / saving) another person's life while (to risk / risking) your own can be a type of positive deviance.
4. Sometimes a society calls (establishing / to establish) conditions (not allowing / not being allowed) for the expansion and commercialization of deviance.
5. Social groups (maybe creating / may create) deviance by (making / to make) the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance.
Exercise 4. Translate from Russian into English using appropriate forms of infinitive, ing-forms or participles.
1. Пьянство, употребление наркотиков, агрессивность и противоправное поведение образуют единый блок. Поэтому вовлечение индивида в один вид девиантных действий повышает вероятность его вовлечения также и в другой.
2. Американский психолог Говард Кэплан одним из первых начал изучение взаимосвязи между девиантным поведением и пониженным самоуважением.
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3. Социальный статус студента, имея характер неопределенности и зависимости, отличается весьма размытыми очертаниями, мигрируя от полюса к полюсу.
4. Каждый день в России добровольно уходят из жизни 100 человек. Осознание проблем возникновения суицида может помочь справиться с этой страшной статистикой.
5. Будучи гражданином и избирателем, каждый взрослый человек может реально что-то сделать для решения важных для себя социальных проблем.
Review of Conditionals
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