Early Automobiles--Gerunds and Infinitives

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Practice #2
Gerunds and Infinitives

Complete the sentences with the correct form (infinitive or gerund) of the verb.

Early automobiles

Many inventors were trying ________ gas-powered, self-propelled
build

vehicles in the late 1800's. A French inventor succeeded in

________ a steam-powered tricycle in 1769. A German engineer,
create

Niklaus August Otto, is known for _________ the four-stroke
invent

gas-powered engine in 1876. Both Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz

managed ________ and _______ autos in Germany in the 1880s.
build sell

By 1898 there were 50 companies responsible for ________ cars in
market

in the United States alone. That number happened __________ to
expand

241 by 1908. It was in 1908 when Henry Ford started ______ automotive
make

history. It was in that year that he managed ________ together the
put

first assembly line and _______ the price of automobiles so that
lower

everyone could buy one. He began ________ workers so that they could
arrange

each do a small part of the job in sequence. This prevented ________
repeat

a lot of unnecessary steps in the assembly process. By 1913 he managed

________ 250,000 cars a year. His first mass-produced car, the
produce

Model T, guaranteed ______ modest-income Americans decent
give

transportation for a reasonable ($500 USD!) price.

Henry Ford went on ________ the U.S. automobile industry for
lead

many years. Though he tried, he failed ________ elected to
get

the U.S. Senate in 1918. His company was started with just $28,000

and, by 1913, managed ________ dividends of $11 million.
pay

While Ford declined _______ away more than a modest amount
give

during his lifetime, the Ford Foundation arranges ________
donate

millions of dollars each year to deserving causes.