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Unit 4 Exploring poetry
Grammar and usage
Overview of to-infinitives,
verb-ing and verb-ed forms
What do the red parts mean and what about their functions?
Exploring the rules
To cook Chinese food is not easy.
My first thought at mealtimes was to eat at a restaurant.
Alice Brown, head teacher at Falmont Primary School, was teaching when the floor began to shake.
We can always expect him to help us.
I was staying in Atlanta, and that was one of the cities to be hit.
That morning, I turned on the TV for some local news, only to hear that a hurricane was on its way.
To-infinitives in sentences from previous units
subject
predicative
object
attributive
adverbial
object complement
Verb-ing forms in sentences from previous units
Sliding into the habit was easy, but it was difficult to quit the habit.
It was surprising then to see so many people viewing important andprecious artworks through their smartphones.
I hear someone playing the piano in the next room.
The people talking there