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verb + infinitive / hope to be an airline pilot.

After so m e v e r b s we use in f i n i t i v e s , usually with to.

I hope to go to Ireland later this year. Did Jeremy agree to help you with your work?

fa Read the texts, and write down the verbs that are followed by an infinitive with to.

I'm eighteen, and I hope to be an airline pilot. My parents have agreed to
pay for lessons if I do well in my exams. My brother says girls shouldn't be
pilots, but I refuse to listen to him.

When I started to work here, my boss promised to give me interesting
work, travelling to Europe and Asia. I expected to enjoy my job. But all my
work is boring, and I don't do any travelling. I've tried to talk to my boss,
but she doesn't listen. Now I've decided to look for another job.

I've always been afraid of water. Then one day last year I thought,'I don't
want to live like this'. So I found some special lessons for people like me. I'm
learning to swim, and next summer I plan to take water-skiing lessons.

I needed to be at work early this morning. But I forgot to set
my alarm clock, and I woke up at 7.30 instead of 6.30. Then
everything seemed to go wrong. I had no clean shirts, the bus
was late,...

I began to learn karate four years ago, and I've continued to go to lessons 13
twice a week since then. I love it. I've visited some other karate clubs, but I 14
prefer to learn at my own club, because the teaching is so good.
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After begin, start, continue and prefer we can also use -ing forms with the same meaning.
When did you begin to learn/begin learning karate?
I started to have / started having these headaches about a month ago.
The President continued to speak/continued speaking for an hour and a half.
I prefer to live/prefer living in the country - the city is too noisy.

-* For -ing forms after try and forget, see page 308.

Love ... Everyone feels it, War will stop when men refuse to fight.
has felt it, or expects to feel it. (Pacifist slogan, 1936)
(Anthony Trollope, 1883)

Gentlemen always seem
We must learn to live together as brothers... to remember blondes.
(Martin Luther King, 1964)
(Anita Loos, 1925)

He preferred to be good
rather than to seem good. Stop the world, I want to get off!
(Sallust, of Cato, 54 B.C.) (Anthony Newley, 1961)

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