Let's practice! 🤓 - Infinitive or -ING?

It's time to practice! Você já aprendeu aqui qual terminação usar quando dois verbos estiverem juntos na frase ("infinitive" or "-ING", que também pode ser chamado de "gerund") e agora é hora de colocar esse conhecimento em teste!

Remember: Não há uma regra específica absoluta que defina sempre quando um ou outro é utilizado, seu uso correto vem apenas com a prática!

- Choose the correct verb form in each sentence:

1. To Forget (esquecer)

Please, don’t ____________ fill those papers and send me until 5pm.

2. To Play (tocar)

They really enjoy ___________ guitar at night.

3. To Watch (assistir)

He dislikes _____________ reality shows.

4. To Learn (aprender)

He’s so smart for his age, he is already ____________ math equations!

5. To Talk (falar)

You kept ____________ during the movie, how rude of you!

6. To Start (iniciar)

She should __________ spend more time with her sister.

7. To Have (ter)

They will _____________ save a lot more money if they want to go to London next year.

8. To Change (mudar)

We discussed ___________ the plans but it was too late.

9. To Want (querer)

I ___________ plan the next party as soon as possible!

10. To Eat (comer)

I hate ____________ alone.

11. To Speak (falar)

I’m learning ___________ English.

12. To Ask (perguntar)

After the class you can start _____________ questions.

13. To Go (ir)

I plan _____________ to the beach during my vacation.

14. To Read (ler)

My sister loves ___ books at night.

15. To Bring (trazer)

They are ____________ the papers signed today.

16. To Study (estudar)

We decided __________ all morning for the test tomorrow.

17. To Be (ser/estar)

He got in trouble because he was ___________ late for work constantly.

18. To Need (precisar)

You have been too stressed, you ____________ take a day off.

19. To Make (fazer)

He offered _____________ me lunch while I work.

20. To Meet (conhecer)

I really disliked _____________ her.

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Check your answers!

a) forget to - infinitive verb

b) playing - gerund -ING (verbos que expressam preferências geralmente têm essa terminação, remember?)

c) watching - gerund (-ING) (verbos que expressam desgostos geralmente têm essa terminação, remember?)

d) learning - gerund (-ING)

e) talking - gerund (-ING)

f) start to - infinitive verb

g) have to - infinitive verb

h) changing - gerund (-ING)

i) want to - infinitive verb

j) eating - gerund (-ING)

k) to speak - infinitive verb

l) asking - gerund (-ING)

m) to go - infinitive verb

n) reading - gerund (-ING)

o) bringing - gerund (-ING)

p) to study - infinitive verb

q) being - gerund (-ING)

r) need to - infinitive verb

s) to make - infinitive verb

t) meeting - gerund (-ING)

Nice job! Keep on studying!