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verb + object + infinitive He wants me to cook.

We often say that we want somebody to do something.

My boyfriend wants me to do all the cooking. (NOT... wants that I do all the cooking.)
We can use would like in the same way.

I'd like you to listen to this song. (NOT I'd like that you listen ...)

^ Make sentences with want or would like.

► MRS LEWIS: Ann, can you post my letters, please? {want)
M rs Lewis wfliA,ts Aia/ia, to post her letters.
1 SARAH: John, could you cook tonight? {would like)

2 POLICEMAN: Please move your car, sir. [want)
................................................................................. the man......................................................................

3 MOTHER: Helen, please wash your face, [want)
Helen's mother ......................................................... her............................................................................
4 BILL: Andy, can you help me? [wouldlike)
him.
5 ROGER: Karen, could you lend me some money? [would like)
............................................................................................. lend him .........................................................
6 JESSIE: Be quiet for a minute, Peter, (wont)

7 DAVID: Alice, can you have dinner with me? [would like)

8 MIKE: The government should put more money into schools, [wouldlike)

9 LUCY: Bill, stop playing that terrible music, (wont)

10 MARY: Gordon, could you make the bed for once? [would like)

Q Different people want Alice to do different things. Complete the sentences.

buy a better guitar buy him do something/ go to America with him go to Russia with her
lend her spend every weekend stop study take him for work

► Everybody Y/.a. !y}£. h ?.r. J#. ?{?. soi^et h I ia^j .
1 Her boss............................................................................................harder.
2 Her little brother............................................................................................a bicycle.

3 Her dog............................................................................................a walk.
4 Her boyfriend..........................................................................................
5 Her friend Martha............................................................................................a blue dress.
6 Her guitar teacher..........................................................................................
7 Her mother............................................................................................at home.
8 Her sister..........................................................................................
9 The people downstairs..................................................................................... playing loud music at night.
10 Her father............................................................................................economics.

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