Cover of the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 16 - A day I'll never forget for the textbook Outcomes Pre-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

For each pair of sentences, decide if the meaning of the words in italics is basically the same or different. If it's different, say why.

Answer

  • In 1, 3 and 5 the meaning is basically the same.
  • In 2, remember + -ing means you have memories of something that happened in the past (often good or bad memories) but remember to phone means you are reminding yourself or someone else to phone in the future.
  • In 4, the use is comparable to 2. Stopped buying means you used to buy the products before, then stopped. Stopped to buy means you were doing something else, then stopped in order to buy something.