INFINITIVES / GERUNDS 15

Please play something else instead of Chris Rea. His music is too slow _____ at a party.

• playing

• to play

• play

• having played

• being played

The rebels in Sierra Leone try _____ the village people _____ them by cutting off some of the inhabitants' hands.

• making / obeyed

• making / to obey

• having made / obeying

• make / to be obeying

• to make / obey

It is a lovely drawing, but I think it needs _____ to look its best.

• to frame

• to be framed

• to have framed

• being framing

• framed

I started my journey without _____ at the map, but I soon regretted _____ so, as I drove a long way off the route.

• looking / doing

• being looked / to do

• look / to have done

• having looked / do

• look / having done

The workers would be even willing _____ lower wages if it meant the factory ---- open.

• accepting / staying

• to accept / staying

• accept / to have stayed

• accepted / having stayed

• to have accepted / stay

None of her relatives understood _____ a promising career ______ in a civil rights movement.

• her being left / participating

• having left / participate

• she to leave / participated

• her leaving /

  to participate

• her leave /

  for participating

I watch him ____ around and ______ away.

• turn / to walk

• turning / walk

• to turn / to walk

• turning / to walk

• turn / walk

The secretary hired a few days ago seems _____ difficulty _____ with the typewriter she has been given.

• to be having / coping

• to have had / coped

• to having / having coped

• having / copes

• having had / cope

_____ happiness, we need both history and science.

• Having understood

• Understanding

• Being understood

• To understand

• To have understood

The manager was accused _______ the origin of the money.

Choose TWO correct options

• of not investigating

• not to investigate

• not to have investigated

• of not having investigated

• of not to investigate