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Verb Patterns and Usage Exercises

This document provides examples of verb patterns and questions to test understanding of verb forms: 1. The first section asks to complete sentences using verb phrases like "agreed to" to match the meaning of examples. 2. The second section chooses the correct verb form, like "taking" vs "take", for sentences involving plans, memories, meanings, and regrets. 3. The third section lists questions to survey a group about experiences like chores, threats, denials, plans, and help offered.

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Verb Patterns and Usage Exercises

This document provides examples of verb patterns and questions to test understanding of verb forms: 1. The first section asks to complete sentences using verb phrases like "agreed to" to match the meaning of examples. 2. The second section chooses the correct verb form, like "taking" vs "take", for sentences involving plans, memories, meanings, and regrets. 3. The third section lists questions to survey a group about experiences like chores, threats, denials, plans, and help offered.

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1D Verb patterns

A Complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first.
Use the word(s) in brackets and an infinitive or -ing form. Use between two and four
words.
1 My mum said she would pick up my friends and me after the party. (AGREED)
My mum my friends and me after the party.
2 I’m not in the mood to cook dinner this evening. (FEEL LIKE)
I don’t dinner this evening.
3 It usually takes me an hour to do my homework. (SPEND)
I usually my homework.
4 I won’t tell anyone your secret. You can trust me. (PROMISE)
I anyone your secret. You can trust me.
5 She lied and said she was eighteen, so she could get into the nightclub. (PRETENDED)
She eighteen, so that she could get into the nightclub.
6 Do you want to play squash with me tomorrow? (FANCY)
Do you squash with me tomorrow?
7 Do you think your son broke the window on purpose? (MEANT)
Do you think your son the window?
8 You should put on a coat if you’re going outside. (SUGGEST)
I a coat if you’re going outside.

B Choose the correct verb form.


1 If you still have a headache, you should try to take / taking some tablets and see if
that helps.
2 I remember to meet / meeting your father for the first time. I thought he was strict
and quite scary!
3 Yuck! That tastes disgusting! Did you mean to put / putting so much salt in
this dish?
4 Sorry I interrupted you. You can go on to read / reading your book now.
5 Can I borrow £5? I won’t forget to pay / paying you back tomorrow.
6 I really regret to accept / accepting the job. I hate my boss and the hours are
so long.
7 Sorry I’m late. I stopped to buy / buying you some flowers on my way here!
8 Working on a dairy farm means to get up / getting up really early in the morning.
9 I regret to inform / informing you that the 6.15 train to Oxford has
been cancelled.

C In groups, find out the answers to these questions.


How many people in your group ...
1 don’t mind doing the washing-up?
2 have threatened to hit someone?
3 have denied doing something they did?
4 aim to get a place at university after finishing school?
5 would miss eating food from your country if they lived abroad?
6 can afford to go shopping next weekend?
7 have offered to help someone recently?
8 often put off doing their homework?

Solutions 2nd edition Intermediate © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS • PHOTOCOPIABLE

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