English Grammar in Use Fifth Edition

UNIT 56
56.1
2 driving
3  to go
4 going
5  to win
6 asking
7 asking
8  to answer
9 causing
10  to do
11 being
12  to climb
13  to tell
14  talking … to see
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Key to Exercises
56.2
2  He doesn’t remember crying 
3  He remembers falling into the river.
4  He doesn’t remember saying he 
wanted to be a doctor.  
  or  
   
He doesn’t remember wanting to be 
a doctor.
5  He doesn’t remember being bitten 
by a dog.
6  He remembers his sister being born 
(when he was four).
56.3
1  b meeting
c leaving/putting
d  to say
e lending
f  to call/phone
2  a doing
b  to say
c  wearing / having / taking / 
putting on
 
d  leaving / giving up
3  a  to become
b working
c reading
d  going up / rising / increasing
UNIT 57
57.1
2  to reach
3 knocking
4  to put
5  to concentrate
6 asking
7 calling
8  to remember
9 restarting
57.2
2  It needs cutting.
3  They need cleaning.
4  They need tightening.
5  It needs emptying.
57.3
2 washing
3 looking
4  to think
5 cutting
6  to go
7  to iron
8 ironing
57.4
2  look  
  or    
to look
3 overhearing
4 smiling
5  make  
  or  
  to make
6  organise  
  or  
  to organise
7 thinking
8  get  
  or  
  to get
UNIT 58
58.1
Example answers:
2  I don’t mind playing cards.
3  I don’t like being alone.  
  or  
… to be alone.
4  I enjoy going to museums.
5  I love cooking.  
  or  
  I love to cook.
6  I hate getting up early.
58.2
2  She likes teaching biology.
3  He likes taking pictures. 
   or  
He likes to take pictures.
4  I didn’t like working there.
5  She likes studying medicine.
6  He doesn’t like being famous.
7  She doesn’t like taking risks. 
   or  
She doesn’t like to take risks.
8  I like to know things in advance.
58.3
2  to sit
3 turning
4  doing  
  or  
  to do
5  to get
6 being
7  to come / to go
8  living / being
9  to talk
10  to have / to know / to get / 
 
to hear / to be told
11  to wait
12  losing  
  or  
  to lose
58.4
2  I would like / I’d like  to have seen the 
programme.
3  I would hate / I’d hate  to have lost 
my watch.
4  I would love / I’d love  to have met 
your parents. 
5  I wouldn’t like to have been alone.
6  I would prefer / I’d prefer  to have 
travelled by train.
UNIT 59
59.1
Example answers:
2  I prefer basketball to football.
3  I prefer going to the cinema to 
watching movies at home. 
4  I prefer being very busy to having 
nothing to do.
6  I prefer to go to the cinema rather 
than watch movies at home.  
  or  
   
I prefer going to the cinema rather 
than watching movies at home.
7  I prefer to be very busy rather than 
have nothing to do.  
  or  
  I prefer 
being very busy to having nothing  
to do.
59.2
3 prefer
4  eat / stay
5  I’d rather (wait) / I’d prefer to (wait)
6  to go
7  (I’d) rather (think) / (I’d) prefer to 
(think)
8  I’d prefer
9  go
11  I’d rather listen to some music than 
watch TV.
12  I’d prefer to eat/stay at home rather 
than go to a restaurant.
13  I’d rather go for a swim than play 
tennis.  
  or    
… than have a game 
of tennis.
14  I’d prefer to think about it for a while 
rather than decide now.
59.3
2  (would you rather) I paid it
3  would you rather I did it
4  would you rather I phoned her
59.4
2 came
3 watch
4 than
5 didn’t
6 was
7  to watch
8 didn’t
9 did
10  rather than