2014-12-17 Structure: gerunds & infinitives

Greg Malivuk
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Monday and Tuesday (December 22 and 23)
- Workshop: 12:30-1:40pm
- Elective: 2:15-4:00pm

Wednesday (December 24): no workshop or elective

The next class after that will be Monday, January 5
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Homework: p. 276-278, exercises 2-3
exercise 2A
2 vegetating
3 worrying (to worry)
4 not having
5 Not working
6 making
7 socializing (to socialize)
8 having
9 meeting
10 working
11 playing (to play)
12 collecting
13 singing (to sing)
14 not singing
15 singing
16 orienteering

walk	walking
like	liking		be	being
stop	stopping	(don't double w, x, or y)
lie	lying		fly	flying

go swimming, go running, go fishing, go bowling, go dancing, go skiing, go shopping, go orienteering, ...
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exercise 2B
2 Bob's helping
3 My boss's criticizing
4 Her living
5 Mary's advising
6 my becoming
7 their being
8 Our getting

I	me	my	mine
you	you	your	yours
we	us	our	ours
they	them	their	theirs
he	him	his	his
she	her	her	hers
it	it	its	(its)
who	whom	whose	whose
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exercise 3
2 seeing
3 having enrolled / enrolling
4 assigning
5 arguing
6 having said / saying
7 studying
8 helping
9 passing
10 having told / telling

adverbial phrases:
Having finished my homework, I decided to watch TV.
(this isn't a gerund, it's a participle)
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p. 280 exercise 5
- His not letting you
- any trouble getting used to
- rushing
- writing
- Getting out
- horseback riding
- river rafting (whitewater rafting)
- interested in learning
- looking forward to seeing
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The employees do everything.

They take care of her.
She is taken care of by them.

-> (She says:) Being taken care of is nice.

Taking care of _____ is nice. (if it's active, we still don't know what the recipient of "take care" is)
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p. 285

INFINITIVES: to + base form

Infinitives can also be subjects, objects of some verbs, and subject complements (just like gerunds).
They cannot be the objects of prepositions.

They can be adjective complements (come after an adjective):
It is important to do tasks ahead of time.
It is unhealthy to smoke cigarettes.
I am glad to see you.
We were surprised to learn that he wasn't there.
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Homework: p. 292-293, exercises 1 and 2