3. Paco enjoyed listening to jokes
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The following are some of the jokes which Paco made and the rest of the group had a good time. Read them.
1. When I was young I didn't like going to weddings.
My grandmother would tell me, "You're next."
However, she stopped doing that after I started saying the same thing to her at funerals.
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2. A lawyer named Strange died, and his friend asked the tombstone maker to inscribe on his tombstone, "Here lies Strange, an honest man, and a lawyer." The inscriber insisted that such an inscription would be confusing, for passers-by would tend to think that three men were buried under the stone. However he suggested an alternative. He would inscribe, "Here lies a man who was both honest and a lawyer. That way, whenever anyone walked by the tombstone and read it, they would be certain to remark, 'That's Strange.'"
Read one of the jokes Paco enjoyed most below!
Of course infinitives or gerunds may be used for other reasons. For example, for a general truth, when a verb functions as the subject of another verb, the gerund is frequently used, as in Smoking is bad for health. But this is not studied here.
Unfortunately, verbs followed by gerunds and/or infinitives must be studied by heart, that is, memorized. Click on the picture below to get a good list of those verbs and the possible structures that follow them. Don't forget to study them little by little.
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1. Don't forget
(fill up) your water bottles.2. Devaj suggested
(go) to bed early.3. Paco remembers
(go) for long walks when he was younger.4. Suddenly, Devaj stopped
(talk) and reminded them (wear) comfortable shoes.5. You have already finished
(do) this exercise.Talking about jokes. Do you know why English is thought to be so difficult? Read the following which stands as a joke among British people.
The English Language
Let's face it Why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables What the heck does a humanitarian eat!? Why do people recite at a play Yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and Drive on parkways |
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy And it reflects the creativity of the human race (Which of course isn't a race at all) That is why When the stars are out they are visible But when the lights are out they are invisible And why it is that when I wind up my watch It starts But when I wind up this observation, It ends. |