Use -ing Verbs

Select the correct sentence.

• Try eat healthy food

• Try eating healthy food.

• Trying eat healthy food.

Select the correct sentence.

• Try exercising a few times a week.

• Exercising a few times a week.

• Try exercise a few times a week.

Try exercising a few times a week.

• Try go to the doctor when you are ill.

• Trying go to the doctor when you are ill.

• Try going to the doctor when you are ill.

Tim: Doctor, I still have a fever. I have taken the medicines for two weeks.

Doctor: I think you ______a blood test now.

• have

• need

• must

"I don't feel well. I feel so hot."

• Try resting and I will take your temperature.

• Try exercising and I will take your temperature.

• Try eating and I will take your temperature.

Chris exercises, eat vegetables and fruits, and reads each day.

• Chris cares about his food.

• Chris cares about his exercise.

• Chris cares about his health.

The doctor told me to _______ to rest and drink extra water.

• try

• trying

• tried

Rose: My mother teaches in a school. Yesterday, she went to the doctor with a sore throat and a headache.

Which sentence is true?

• Rose's mother is a nurse.

• Rose's mother is a doctor.

• Rose's mother is a patient.

Jabi cares about his health. What suggestion can he give others for a healthy lifestyle?

• Try watching more TV.

• Try eating healthy food.

• Try missing meals.

To make a suggestion you need to...

• use only nouns.

• use try + -ing verbs

• use only adjectives