Lecture Ten

1. Lecture Ten Verb and Verb Phrase (VII)

2. -ing participle • Object • He admitted making the mistake. • I can’t resist bargaining. • She always detested seeing a bullfight. • She couldn’t help crying when she heard the news. • We appreciate your inviting us to your party. • I don’t mind John/John’s moving to another house. • acknowledge, anticipate, delay, deny, imagine, give up, enjoy, include, miss, resent, can’t stand, can’t resist, etc • She is fond of playing tennis.

3. Object complement • I saw him running away. • Cf. I saw him run away.

4. Subject • Seeing is believing. • Beating a child will do more harm than good

5. Subject complement • My hobby is growing flowers.

6. Modifier of a noun • He saw a sleeping child in the room. • The problem being discussed is very important. • a swimming pool • a tiring journey

7. Adverbial • Not knowing what to do, I phoned the police. • Having worked for two hours, they took a rest. • Working hard, you’ll make progress. • Although toiling all the year round, the poor peasnt couldn’t afford to send his children to school.

8. Logical subject • He suggested her/she/John/John’s applying for the job. • I hope you will forgive me for ringing you up so late. • I hope you will forgive my ringing you up so late. • She accused hime of stealing the money. • We must stop her from telling lies. • You can never fool him into believing that lie of yours.

9. Infinitive or –ing participle • begin, cease, continue, start • I began to learn/learning English when I was twelve. • They never cease to complain/complaining. • They would continue to make/making a lot of noise until midnight every day. • I began to like English when I was ten. • He started to see my point. • He’s beginning to chagne his habit. • It’s no use continuing to complain.

10. Like, love, hate • I like swimming, but I don’t like to swim now.

11. Deserve, need, require, want • The car needs repairing/to be repaired. • He didn’t deserve treating/to be treated that way.

12. Remember, forget, go on, stop • Cf. I’ll remember to tell the news. • I’ll remember telling her the news. • Cf. He stopped talking to me. • He stopped to talk to me.

13. Mean, regret, try • We didn’t mean to hurt you. • Success means working very hard. • I regret to inform you that … • I regret telling her the news. • He tried to finish the work on his own. • He tried growing vegetables but soon found it was impossible.

14. Advise, allow, encourage, permit, recommend • My doctor advised me to do some morning exercises. • Doctors advise doing more exercises. • The government encourages people to use the public transportation. • The governmetn encourages using the public transportation. • She doesn’t allow him to smoke in the house. • She doesn’t allow smoking in the house.

15. -ed participle • Modifier • The bird caught yesterday is a robin. • We are making a study of spoken English. • Cf. boiled water, boiling water • frozen food, a freezing wind • a recorded talk, a recording machine • a fallen leave, a falling tide • a retired teacher, a retiring teacher

16. -ed participles derived from transitive verbs • a broken window • a defeated army • a developed country • a finished project • a wanted man

17. -ed participles derived from intransitive verbs • newly-arrived tourists • well-behaved pupils • fallen leaves • the risen sun • retired workers

18. Subject complement • He seemed/appeared well prepared for the debate. • John was very disappointed. • I feel very impressed when I visited the city. • He went unpunished, although he was guilty. • Agriculture has grown mechanized. • She kept depressed until he came back. • He remained drunk all the night.

19. Object complement • He had the car repaired. • We must get the work done as soon as possible. • You’d better keep your mouth shut. • We left a log of problems unsovled. • Would you speak louder so as to make yourself heard?

20. Adverbial • Written in simple English, the book is easy to read. • Greatly surprised, he couldn’t say a word.

21. Cf. The fire was caused by a lighted match. • The fire is lit/lighted. • I met a drunken man. I found him dead drunk. • Food that has rotted is rotten. • The ship has sunk. It is a sunken ship. • A clean-shaven man is a man who has shaved celan. • Cf. He was born in 1980. • The sound of music was borne on the wind.

22. I am/was gald to see you. • Writing a report on the case will take up all my time next week. • They ask him to give a lecture on English literature. • He agreed to do it. • I have/had no idea of his having done such a thing. • I am/was sorry to have kept you waiting. • Having finished my homework, I went/go out.

23. Dangling participles • Entering the room, I found nobody in it. • *Using these techniques, a wheel fell off. • *Opening the cupboard, a skeleton fell out. • Looking ahead to the weekend, temperatuer will be higher. • Caught in a traffic jam, it is easy to lose patience. • Having eaten our lunch, the car pusehd it s way through the tortuous canyon.

24. Given her interest in children/that she is interested in children, I am sure teaching is the right career for her. • Considering the circumstances/the circumstances are so terrible, you have done very well. • Seeing (that) the weather is bad, we’ll stay at home. • Provided/providing ti is fine, we’ll have a good holiday.