Question

Hi, I need to identify the combinations of infinitives and gerund


Underline with a different color all the infinitive or gerund combinations that

you find then Make a list of the verb + infinitive or gerund combinations that you find.


Example:

Verb + Infinitive: learn to speak

Verb + Gerund: prefer saying



Einstein’s Early Education


(1) Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879.

(2) Because he learned to speak at a late age, his parents feared that he was retarded.

(3) Modern observers prefer saying that he was a daydreamer.

(4) When he was 5 years old, Einstein began to attend a Catholic school.

(5) One instructor was especially critical of his abilities and told his parents that it did not matter what field young Albert chose because he would not succeed in it.

(6) In 1889, Einstein transferred to a very strict German school called the Luitpold Gymnasium.

(7) The rigid structure forced Einstein to distrust authority and become skeptical.

(8) At age 12, Einstein picked up a mathematics textbook and began teaching himself geometry.

(9) By 1894, Einstein’s father’s business had failed to prosper, and the family moved to Italy.

(10) Einstein, however, remained behind and began feeling lonely and unhappy.

(11) Consequently, he paid less attention to his studies and was finally asked by one of the teachers to leave.

(12) He joined his family in Italy but was not able to matriculate at a university because he did not have a diploma.

(13) When he heard that a diploma was not necessary to enter at the Swiss Polytechnique Institute in Zurich, he decided to apply.

(14) Einstein traveled to Switzerland but did not pass the entrance examination.

(15) He was not prepared well enough in biology and languages, so he enrolled in the Gymnasium at Aarau to prepare himself in his weaker subjects.

(16) Albert enjoyed studying in Aarau more than at the Luitpold Gymnasium because the teachers wanted to teach students how to think.

(17) He took the exam again and was finally permitted to matriculate into a four-year program.

(18) Einstein did not excel during these years at the Institute.

(19) In fact, he rarely attended the lectures.

(20) He read his books at home and borrowed his classmates’ notes to pass tests.

(21) When Einstein graduated in 1900, he failed to obtain a position at the Institute.

(22) His professors did not intend to reward Einstein’s lackadaisical attitude toward classes with a position.

(23) Because he did not get an academic appointment, he worked at the Swiss Patent Office.

(24) He worked there for several years until he was offered an appointment as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich.

(25) It was there that Einstein’s revolutionary theories of space-time began to take hold and threatened to destroy the reputations of other colleagues who had built their careers on Newton’s ideas of a clockwork universe.

Answer 1

Answer:

Verb + Infinitive: learn to speak

Verb + Gerund: prefer saying

Einstein’s Early Education

(1) Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, in 1879.

(2) Because he learned to speak at a late age, his parents feared that he was retarded.

(3) Modern observers prefer saying that he was a daydreamer

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