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17. Read the following instructions.
Use of simple present, imperative, gerund and infinitive
• Check if the underlined verb is used appropriately. If not, make the correction.
Look at the example.

Instruction Correction

Example:

• The object needing to be short • The object needs to be short

enough for participants to measuring enough for participants to measure
its height. its height.

a. If nothing is available in the outdoor a. If nothing is available in the outdoor
area, to set a broom or yardstick in a area, a broom or yardstick
coffee can full of gravel or sand. in a coffee can full of gravel or sand.

b. You can pounding a sturdy stake into b. You can a sturdy stake
the ground or set a clean plunger on the into the ground, or a clean
pavement. plunger on the pavement.

session 6 go at the beginning

Remember

Imperatives usually

of an instruction.
Infinitives go after
a modal verb or
indicate a purpose,
and a gerund is
used to express how
or when an action
should be done.

18. Identify the way actions are expressed in the instructions you are working with.

• Make a chart in your notebook and classify the actions you identify. Look at the example.

For our set of instrucions

W ays to express actions Infinitive

Simple present Imperative Gerund • to measure
• needs • set • working

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