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Unit 6
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 LEARNING OUTCOMES:
❖ TALK ABOUT COMMON COMPLAINTS
❖ DESCRIBNG PROBLEMS WITH PAST PARTICIPLES AS ADJECTIVES AND WITH NOUNS.
❖ PRACTICE KEEP AND NEED WITH GERUNDS; PRACTICE NEED + PASSIVE INFINITIVES.
 Describing problems 1
This section presents describing problems and complaints with past participles as adjectives, with
verbs.
Let's have a look at some examples:
The shirt is stained ( Stained is the past participle of the verb " to stain" used as an adjective to
describe what was wrong with the shirt.)
The jacket lining is torn.
Her sunglasses are little scratched.
The new aquarium is leaking ( here it is an exception to use the present continuous to describe the
problem)

Describng problems with nouns:

It has a stain on it.
It has a tear in it. ( meaning there is a hole in it)
There are a few scratches on them.
It has a leak in it.
Describing Problems 2 : Action taken ( what needs to be done)
Need+ passive infinitive
The car needs to be fixed.
The chair needs to be repaired.
The walls need to be painted.

Need+ gerund
The car needs fixing.
The chair needs repairing.
The walls need painting.

Keep+ gerund
Everything keeps burning.
The alarm keeps going off.
 SUMMARY
Describing problems 1
Describing problems 2
When you are describing problems
grammatically you can use past participle as
Problems can be described with the word keep + a
an adjetive to state what the problem is for
verb in gerund for example:
example:
The computer is broken
The stove keeps burning the food.
Her dress is stained
The chair keeps breaking.
The stove is damaged.
A problem can also be expressed by saying what
Problems can also be desbribed with nouns
needs to be solved it can be
for example:
using need+gerund or need + passive infinitive.
It has a hole in it.
It has a stain in it.
My stove needs adjusting. My stove needs to
Ther is some damage on it.
be adjusted.
The chair needs fixing. The chair needs to
be fixed.
 REFERENCE
RICHARDS, Jack. Interchange, fourth edition 2010. Cambridge University Press

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