А) Compare the usage of gerunds and infinitives in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
1) Don’t forget shutting the windows when you leave home. – Don’t forget to shut the windows when you leave home. It is very windy today. 2) I don’t like interrupting people. - I do not want to interrupt them; they seem to be very busy. 3) I remember seeing this book in many bookshops. - Remember to buy this book. 4) They stopped talking when they came in. - They stopped to exchange a few words with him.
b) Compare the usage of gerunds and participles in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
1) Fancy his courting Emily! - Fancy him courting Emily! 2) I don’t like Jane’s nagging her husband. - I can’t listen to Jane nagging her husband. 3) She had to take sleeping pills every night. - A sleeping child is such a charming sight. 4) They sat there without talking for several minutes not knowing what to say to each other.
C) Compare the usage of participles and infinitives in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
1) We saw the girl approach the people standing at the gateway. - We saw the girl slowly approaching them. 2) He heard the woman fumbling at the wall. - He heard the woman fumble at the wall. 3) There are things desired by all people. - There are things to be desired by all people.
D) Compare the usage of participles I and II in the sentences below and explain their semantic differences.
1) We often talked about those happy days spent in the country. - Children spending their summer vacations in the country are usually much stronger. 2) The burning leaves looked so sad. - There was a smell of burnt leaves in the garden. 3) She always blushed when asking for something. - She always blushed when asked.
A) Read the poems below and say what parts of speech the words in bold belong to.
| • • • It was Easter as I walked in the public gardens Hearing the frogs exhaling from the роnd, Watching traffic of magnificent cloud Moving without anxiety on ореn sky Season when lovers and writers find An altering speech for altering things, An emphasis оn new names, оn the arm А fresh hand with fresh power. But thinking so I came at оnсе Where solitary mаn sat weeping on а bench, Hanging his head down, with his mouth distorted Helpless and ugly as an embryo chicken. Wystan Н. Auden | MR. RAВBIТ'S TAIL It's too small for wagging When you are feeling gay. It's too short keeping
Biting insects away. It's too short for curling Around you at night, Тоо small for helping То keep you upright. Laura Аrlоn | ||||
| ТНЕ FALLING STAR I saw а star slide down the sky, Blinding the north as it went bу, Тоо burning and too quick to hold, Тоо lovely to bе bought or sold, Good оnlу to make wishes оn Аnd then forever to bе gоnе. Sara Teasdale | А DREAM …Troubled, wildered, аnd forlorn, Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over mаnу а tangled spray, All heart-broke I heard her [Angel] say: 'Oh my children! do they cry, William Вlake
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