tailieunhanh - Building grammar skills for TOEFL IBT part 8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'building grammar skills for toefl ibt part 8', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Building Grammar Skills Here is a list of verbs which must be followed by the gerund admit appreciate avoid be fond of can t help consider delay deny detest dislike enjoy finish give up keep mind miss risk quit put off practice postpone recall recommend regret tolerate suggest stop. Remember When a verb follows a preposition including phrasal a phrasal verb it MUST be in the gerund form. Exercise Complete these sentences using the verbs in the box. paying taxes getting tortured fighting or even marching getting destroyed contacting farming going declaring independence attacking 1. The American colonists detested to England without getting representation in government. 2. Paul Revere risked by the British for giving notice of the coming. 3. There was no time for the Continental Army to practice well. 4. At first Washington avoided directly the British army in open battle. 5. At Valley Forge the entire Continental Army risked - only a mistake in communication between British units saved them 6. In hindsight it is actually quite suiprising that the Continental Army did not quit after so many early defeats. 7. After the passage of the Intolerable Acts the Continental Congress could not put off any more. 8. Benjamin Franklin suggested France and asking for help with the war. 9. Many patriots gave up to join the war. 10. After the defeat at Yorktown British Parliament couldn t help a treaty with the Continental Congress. 102 Copyrighted material Building Grammar Skills Exercise Tn the following exercise choose the appropriate form of the verb gerund or infinitive The Causes of the US Revolution By the end of the I7 h century cultural differences between England and its colonies in the New World had started to grow growing . There were many reasons for this the most obvious being physical separation. The type of people who immigrate to a new land obviously enjoy to do doing different things than those people who prefer to stay staying in one place. For the most