GERUND VS INFINITVE

I. Complete the text with the correct form of the verbs in the box.
write

help

read

smoke

help

fight

kill

play

1. Everyone knows about Sherlock Holmes, the famous Victorian detective, who
enjoyed
Smoking his pipe and practiced playing his violin while he thought about his latest
case. Not so many people are familiar with his enemy, Professor Moriarty.
Whereas Holmes promised to fight evil, Moriarty chose to help it. In fact, Moriarty
offered to help all the criminals in London.
When Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, didnt feel like writing any more
detective stories, he decided to kill both characters. In a famous scene from The Final
Problem (1893), Moriarty and Holmes fell to their deaths while fighting on top of the
Reichenbach waterfalls in Switzerland.
However, under pressure from his readers who missed to read about their favorite
detective, Conan Doyle brought Holmes back to life for 1930s The Adventure of the
Empty House. So did Moriarty really die? Only one man knows.

I. Complete the sentences with the gerund or infinitive form of the verbs.

1. Dorian Grey is young and handsome and detests getting (get) older.
2. I want to be (be) young forever, he says.
3. Jekyll enjoys having (have) another personality that he can control.
4. The Devil appears in front of Faust, and suggests making (make) a deal.
5. Faust promises to give (give) the Devil his soul in return.
6. Viktor Frankenstein imagines living (live) in a world where people control life and
death.
7. He wants to play (play) God and decides to build (build) a human being.

Despus de estos

VERBS FOLLOWED BY
GERUNDS

VERBS FOLLOWED BY
INFINITIVES

VERBS FOLLOWED BY
GER/INF

Enjoy
Practice
Feel like
Miss
Detest
suggest

promise
choose
offer
decide
want

Like
Dislike
Hate
Love
Start
begin