Learn to Write English Clearly and Correctly

Lesson 22 Answer Key

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Exercise A:

1. wearing 3. walking 5. to give 7. breaking 9. slurping
2. to wash 4. to pay 6. lifting 8. to go 10. to cross

Exercise B: Answers given are just possibilities.  The important thing is the form - ing or to.

1. threaten to leave to quit to carry
2. hope to win to arrive to survive
3. risk breaking losing ruining
4. offer to buy to fix to marry
5. forget to tell to turn to subtract
6. miss holding seeing breathing
7. finish dressing painting writing
8. admit taking breaking finding
9. promise to return to cherish to deliver
10. refuse to eat to speak to wash

Examination: Put a correct verb form in the blanks in the following sentences.  The answers may vary, but the form must be correct.

1. to solve, to avoid, to miss 5. seeing, calling, visiting 9. living, staying, sleeping
2. spitting, sitting, lying 6. to buy, to lease, to own 10. to tie, to polish, to find
3. to end, to perform, to do 7. painting, patching, fixing  
4. to signal, to slow, to look 8. to wash, to clean, to break  

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