[Gerunds and Infinitives] 所有格+動名詞

Do you mind my sitting here?

(=Do you mind if I sit here?)

The man (who is) chewing loudly annoys her. (chewing loudly 只是補充)  (那個 (咀嚼很大聲的) 男人令她反感)

The man's chewing loudly annoys her. (那男人咀嚼很大聲這件事令她反感)

[Gerunds and Infinitives]Using Gerunds as the Objects of Prepositioins

 Common preposition combinations followed by gerunds (blue Page 302)

be excited	about doing it
be worried

 

complain	about/of doing it.
dream
talk
think

 

pologize	for doing it
blame someone
forgive someone
have an excuse
have a reason
be responsible
thank someone

keep someone	from doing it.
preent someone
prohibit someone
stop someone

 

be interested	in doing it.
believe
participate
succeed

be accused	of doing it
be capable
be guility
instead
take advantage
take care

 

be tired	of / from doing it
insist on doing it

 

be accustomed	to doing it
in addition
be committd
be devoted
look forward
object
be opposed
be used

 

13. I want you to know that I'm sorry. I don't know if you can ever forgive me for causing you so much trouble.

15. I'm not happy in my work. I often dream about quitting my job.

16. How do you stop someone from doing something you know is wrong?

19. Anna made a lot of big mistakes at work. That's why she was afraid of losing her job.

worry about/be worried about

[Gerunds and Infinitives] Gerunds:Introduction

 

Playing tennis is fun.

S                V

We enjoy playing tennis.

S V        O

He's excited about playing tennis.

PREP    O

 

[Count/Noncount Nouns] someone, anyone, everyone

 1. someone/somebody 某人

用於肯定句

用於請求和提議

ex. There’s someone at the office.

有人在辦公室。

ex. Can you send someone to help me?

你可以派人幫我嗎？

ex. Would you like to talk to somebody?

你想和別人聊聊嗎？

2. anyone/anybody 任何人.有人

用於否定句

用於尋找資訊的問題

ex. I don’t think anyone is at the office.

我不認為有人在辦公室。

ex. Has anybody seen my keys?

有人看到我的鑰匙嗎？

ex. Why hasn’t anyone returned my calls?

為什麼沒有人回我電話？

 

3. everyone/everybody 每個人.所有人

談及所有人與情況或群體有關

ex. Everyone in our class graduated.

我們班上的每個人都畢業了。

ex. It was great to see everybody at the reunion!

很高興在這次聚會中看到每個人。

ex. Everybody had a great time.

每個人都玩得很開心。

Your friends are 1 doing  2 everything 3 to take care of you 4. Why don't you learn to appreciate them?

possible

Answer: 3

look forward to vs. expect

look forward to

當你熱切盼望，期待某個人或事的到來，希望它趕快發生、通常是好事具正面的意義時，就用look forward to 來表達。

expect

期盼某件事的到來，而是已預先知道、 已清楚明白某件事將會發生，自己心裡有數，已有所準備，對於將要到來的事已在預料當中了

[Nouns and pronouns] 不定代名詞

單數：one, other, another, each, either, neither, less, little, much

複數：others, both, few, several, many

單/複：none, any, more, most, much, some,such

example:

I have several.

Many (people) complained about the loud noise.

little (太多字不可數)

few (可數)

[Nouns and pronouns] 指示代名詞

This vs. That

1. 物理距離

2.時間距離

  This is a good film. (正在看)

  That was a great movie. (之前看)

3. 情感距離

  I love these. (相親近)

  I don't like those. (想離遠一點)

  I don't want to talk about this. (不一定，沒有嚴格)

4. 代替前面提到的事情

  有生命所有格

  A engineer's salary is lower that that of (= the salary) a doctor's

 =   A engineer's salary is lower that a doctor's (salary).

無生命，所以不會有 schist's the size

 Its grain size is larger than that of (=the size) slate but smaller than that of (=the size) schist.

5. those who

Those (people) who are interested in the course can learn more about it via the link below.