Lesson 1 – Handout 1a

 

Leave out everything you can in the following sentences without changing their meaning:

 

1.   It’s impossible to force people to do what their basic nature tells them not to do.

 

2.   I want to eat pineapples, to lie in the sun and to get brown.

 

3.   I hope to be eating pineapples on a beach in Acapulco this time next week and to be thoroughly enjoying myself.

 

4.   She expected it to have been booked and to have been paid for already.

 

5.   ‘Must the flight be booked now?’ ‘ Yes, she wants it to be booked straight away.’

 

6.   I didn’t want my bags to be searched like hers.

 

7.   She wants his pocket money to be stopped for six months.

 

8.   Explain the difference between the following sentences:   

She clearly expected you to book it.

She clearly expected you to have booked it.

 

References:

Gethin, H. (1992) Grammar in Context. Harlow: Addison Wesley Longman Limited, pp. 100-103.