Choose the correct answer for each gap below.

1. Dan enjoys reading / to read science fiction.

2. Cheryl suggested to see / seeing a movie after work.
3. I miss to work / working in the travel industry. Maybe I can get my old job back.
4. Where did you learn to speak / speaking Spanish? Was it in Spain or in Latin
America?
5. Do you mind helping / to help me translate this letter?
6. He asked talking / to talk to the store manager.
7. You've never mentioned living / to live in Japan before. How long did you live
there?
8. If he keeps coming / to come to work late, he's going to get fired!
9. Debbie plans to study / studying abroad next year.
10. I agreed to help / helping Jack wash his car.
11. I hope to graduate / graduating from college next June.
12. The models practiced to walk / walking with a book balanced on their heads.
13. Mandy has promised taking / to take care of our dog while we are on vacation.
14. Mr. Edwards chose accepting / to accept the management position in Chicago
rather than the position in Miami.
15. I don't know what she wants to do / doing tonight. Why don't you ask her?
16. Frank offered helping / to help us paint the house.
17. Sandra decided studying / to study economics in London.
18. Witnesses reported seeing / to see the bank robber as he was climbing out of the
second-story window.
19. Stephanie dislikes to work / working in front of a computer all day.
20. Mrs. Naidoo appears being / to be the most qualified person for the job.
21. Eliza recommended to eat / eating in a dim sum restaurant while we're in Hong
Kong.
22. I demand talking / to talk to the manager of the hotel immediately.
23. My grandmother recalled to see / seeing a plane for the very first time when she
was six.
24. She claims to be / being related to George Washington, but I don't believe her.
25. This broken bicycle needs fixing / to fix before someone can ride it.
26. I can't understand driving / to drive such a big car when gas prices are so high,
not to mention what it does to the environment.
27. She refused to speak / speaking to me after our fight.
28. The wilderness adventure course lasts ten days and involves hiking / to hike
more than fifty miles through rugged mountainous terrain.
29. Don't hesitate to ask / asking for help if you don't understand the directions.
30. She managed to communicate / communicating with them, even though she
didn't speak their language.
31. She pretended to be / being a student in order to get a student discount.

32. She waited to see / seeing what would happen next.

33. The child denied to steal / stealing the piece of candy.
34. We fully intend paying / to pay you for all the work you have done for us.
35. You seem being / to be a little distracted. Is everything alright?
36. Laura and Ed discussed moving / to move to the city to find work; however, in the
end, they decided against relocating.
37. She refused admitting / to admit that she had made a mistake.
38. After his accident last year, he would never consider buying / to buy another
motorcycle.
39. Margaret just happened to find / finding the lost car keys while she was looking
for something else.
40. He never admitted having / to have the wild party while his parents were out of
town.
41. Jackie tends to arrive / arriving late on Mondays, but our boss doesn't seem to
care about that very much.
42. She imagined to lie / lying on a tropical beach under a palm tree.
43. The winner of the local competition gets
to participate / participating in a
national competition in Washington D.C.
44. We don't anticipate to have / having any more technical problems during the
concert tour.
45. Debbie failed to notice / noticing her credit card lying on the ground.
46. The politician swore to serve / serving the people honestly and with pride, but
the scandal revealed that the promise was little more than a lie.
47. Mr. Shinohara recollected working / to work with his father on his family's fishing
boat when he was a young child.
48. The medical team deserves receiving / to receive the award for their volunteer
work in sub-Saharan Africa.
49. I really appreciate having / to have the opportunity to take part in this project and
to work with such an excellent team.
50. She delayed to submit / submitting her application until just one week before
the deadline.
51. Everybody arranged meeting / to meet at the train station 30 minutes before the
train departed.
52. Simona resisted to speak / speaking Italian during her English training program
in London. She wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to improve her English.
53. Do you care to join / joining us later for dinner? We are meeting at Tony's Italian
Restaurant downtown.
54. We waited seeing / to see what would happen next, but nothing happened.
55. Julius vowed returning / to return to his home country once again to see the
village where he and his family had lived before the war.
56. Diana yearns traveling / to travel to far off, exotic destinations.
57. When she got through reading / to read her book, she laid it on the table next to
the bed and went to sleep.
58. They expected arriving / to arrive much earlier, but their plane was delayed in

Paris.
59. Michael postponed to clean / cleaning the bathroom as long as possible. He
hates cleaning!
60. How can you defend saying / to say such terrible things to him?
61. Bill agreed meeting / to meet us at the restaurant at 8:30, but he never showed
up.
62. Jennifer practiced pronouncing / to pronounce the word until she sounded just
like a native speaker.
63. Our art teacher encouraged
experimenting / to experiment with different
colors.
64. Dana hopes saving / to save enough money to travel around Europe for three
months. It's her dream.
65. Dancing / To dance is her life. That is why Susan moved to New York to study
dancing professionally.
66. Constance plans taking / to take part in the marathon next spring.
67. I can't help wondering / to wonder how my grandmother's life would have been
different if she had been able to go to college.
68. The doctor advised seeing / to see a specialist about the problem.
69. To swim / Swimming helped me strengthen my injured leg.
70. After the tsunami, Bette chose to stay / staying in Indonesia and work with a
relief organization.
71. Reading / To read is a great way to relax. I love to sit back and enjoy a good
book.
72. Why do you always get to be / being first? I want to go first this time!
73. When you're in Prague, I recommend to walk / walking from the Charles Bridge
to the castle at night.
74. Susanne just happened
being / to be in the restaurant when Julia Roberts
walked in! Can you believe that?
75. Eye specialists urge taking / to take frequent breaks while using the computer
for extended periods of time.
76. I thought you knew nothing about cars. Where did you learn
to change /
changing a flat tire?
77. My favorite thing is floating / to float on my back in the sea.
78. The Egyptology course requires participating / to participate in six months of
field studies near Luxor, Egypt.
79. The nurse risked getting / to get the disease from her patient, but she continued
to treat him until he had fully recovered.
80. Dad, you promised taking / to take us to the beach today. When are we going to
go to the beach?
81. He expects finishing / to finish his studies next summer.
82. National park officials do not permit
to enter / entering the park without an
official guide. You can hire one at the park office.
83. He offered carrying / to carry her books on the way home.
84. The archaeologist reported to find / finding a large, previously unknown pyramid

deep in the jungle.

85. Samantha keeps forgetting / to forget to send us the documents. We need to
have them by next week!
86. Felix decided not
accepting / to accept the position in Miami because he
wanted to stay in New York.
87. To exercise and to eat / Exercising and eating right can help you live a long
and healthy life.
88. The refugees risked to be / being captured as they tried to escape through the
mountains.
89. You have to wait forever at the doctor's office. I suggest to take / taking a good
book to help kill time.
90. Mr. Miller asked to be / being included in the meeting with the new clients.
91. After his insulting comments, I thought Jack deserved being / to be fired.
92. Max avoided to use / using his cell phone when other people were in the room.
93. We arranged to have / having a taxi pick us up and take us to the airport.
94. I resent to be / being treated like a servant in my own home!
95. Frank completed to build / building the new barn last week. Next, he is going to
paint it red.
96. Don't worry, I don't mind making / to make dinner. I think I'll make fish with
steamed vegetables, and a big salad on the side!
97. Crying, the mother looked into the television camera and said, "Society will no
longer tolerate to drink and drive / drinking and driving."
98. Karen and Neil would like trying / to try that new dance club downtown. It's
supposed to have one of the largest dance floors in the world.
99. I can't see buying / to buy a car when you don't even have a driver's license.
That doesn't make any sense!
100. When do you wish to begin / beginning, now or later?

Choose the correct answer for each gap below, then click the "Check" button to check
your answers.
1. I can't stand to complain / complaining her complaining all the time.
2. Our teacher won't allow us to use / us using / to use dictionaries during the test.
3. We advised him to take / him taking / his to take a taxi instead of walking to
the restaurant.
4. The city doesn't allow parking / my parking / to park along curbs painted red.
5. She prefers making / to make / my making dinner because she doesn't like to
cook.
6. I hope you don't mind smoking / me to smoke / my smoking while you eat.
7. John is never on time to work! I hate arriving / him to arrive / his arriving late
every day.
8. Sarah urged me to vote / to vote / me voting in the next election.
9. He needs to get a visa extension immediately. The authorities won't permit him to
stay / him staying / to stay in the country without a visa.
10. Travel agents usually advise to reconfirm / reconfirming / him reconfirming
flight bookings three days before departure.
11. I enjoy not to have / having / not having to get up so early in the morning.
Sleeping in is great!
12. Nancy proposed us to have / our to have / our having a picnic at the beach.
13. Do you wish to continue / our continuing / continuing, or would you like to
stop now?
14. His car needs washing / him to wash / to wash. It looks like it hasn't been
washed in years.
15. Smokers risk to get / me to get / getting several smoking related illnesses.
16. The astronomer told us not looking / not to look / looking into the sun during
the eclipse.
17. I wish she would just quit to complain / my complaining / complaining all the
time.
18. Leslie hired to repair / a man repairing / someone to repair her fence.
19. She resisted to take / taking / my taking advice from her coworkers.
20. Linda regretted not going / to go / not to go to her high school reunion.
21. They urged the hikers to watch / the hikers' to watch / to watch out for
bears.
22. Denise resented not having / not to have / not have the opportunity to work
and advance her career.
23. The policeman ordered the driver to stop / stopping / the driver stopping his
car.
24. He threatened his leaving / to leave / leaving forever.
25. After he finished his watching / to watch / watching the show, he turned off the
TV and went to bed.
26. The banker advised his clients to invest / to inves / this clients investing for
retirement.
27. Mr. Johnson won't tolerate our being / to be / us to be late to class.

28. Do you prefer Ester's helping you or me to help you / Ester's helping you
or my helping you / Ester's to help you or me to help you?
29. I go ice skate / to ski / snowboarding every year. I love winter sports.
30. Frederick and I discussed costing / the computer's costing / the car to cost
more than we can afford.
HINT: This quiz focuses on whether verbs can be followed by an infinitive, a noun +
infinitive, or BOTH.
1. She promised him to go / to go to the doctor as soon as she returned home.
2. Franne encouraged to apply / me to apply for the job.
3. She wants to study / her daughter to study more.
4. She neglected to mention / him to mention all the facts.
5. The food caused to get / her to get sick.
6. We expect to start / her to start soon.
7. Sam chose to begin / me to begin the meeting.
8. I tried to email / her to email the picture, but it didn't work.
9. Laurelle reminded to lock me / me to lock the door.
10. I would like to take / the group to take the train.
11. Debbie urged visiting / them to visit the Eiffel Tower while they were in Paris.
12. I remember getting / him to get up at 4:30 AM to make it to work on time.
13. The math teacher doesn't allow using / us to use calculators.
14. Sallie wanted staying / us to stay longer, but I was so tired that we had to leave.
15. The Japanese teacher encouraged speaking / the students to speak in class.
16. The consultant advised reducing / them to reduce costs.
17. I need helping / you to help me move the table.
18. The zoo keeper permitted touching / us to touch the snake.
19. Do you mind waiting / me to wait a few more minutes?
20. The hiking course requires camping / us to camp in the snow.

De las tres opciones solo una es la correcta.

21. Carrie Ann goes studying / surfing / working every day.
22. Delores goes visiting her mother / hiking in the mountains / exercising at
the fitness center when she has time.
23. Sam went sightseeing / staying in a hotel / seeing museums in Paris.
24. Lisa and Kurt are going to go
dancing / eating dinner / seeing a movie
tonight.
25. Jamie has never gone shopping / hanging out / buying in that mall.
26. Patrick wanted to go tennising / footballing / bowling with his friends, but he
had to work late.
27. He likes to go fishing / surfing the Internet / learning languages.

28. Stephanie loves to go lying on the beach / sailing / getting a tan.

29. Mina wants to go relaxing / photographing / camping on the weekend.
30. Sarah often goes
painting pictures of the countryside / reading in the
library / mountain climbing.
31. Simone was talking about to grow / growing up in Tanzania. She has had such
an interesting life!
32. I need him helping / to help me lift this heavy box.
33. Thank you for coming / to come to the meeting on such short notice.
34. I suggest visiting / to visit Japan when the cherry trees are in bloom.
35. We hired professional translators translating / to translate the documents into
Arabic and Chinese.
36. After work, I always go to jog / jogging. I'm a fitness freak!
37. His interest in learning / to learn languages is very impressive.
38. I don't mind your friend Sally to come / Sally's coming along with us. Why don't
you invite her and her husband?
39. Roberta is getting tired of doing / to do the same old job day in and day out. I
think she is going to quit!
40. Health professionals encourage people eating / to eat less red meat.
41. Agatha invited me spending / to spend the summer at her family's home in
Costa Rica.
42. I didn't believe Camille's story about to find / finding a rattlesnake in her bed.
43. The terrible weather forced us changing / to change our plans.
44. Diane has been scared of swimming / to swim in the ocean ever since she saw
the movie "Jaws."
45. I don't know how you got my son
to eat / eating his broccoli. He hates
vegetables!
46. I went bungee jumping / to bungee jump when I was in New Zealand. It was
awesome!
47. Sally loves to go to window shop / window shopping in her free time. She
doesn't usually buy anything, she just likes to look.
48. What do you think about Sarah's and Doug's getting / Sarah and Doug to
get married just one week after they met? Isn't that crazy?
49. I urge you to reconsider / reconsidering your decision.
50. His reasons for to choose / choosing to study Latin were always unclear to me.
51. Michael's talent for to choose / choosing the right investments made him rich.
52. Katie's talking caused me making / to make a mistake.
53. I'm bored of to do / doing the same old thing every weekend.
54. Neil Armstrong is famous for to be / being the first man to walk on the Moon.
55. The zoo keeper allowed us to pet / petting the cheetah.
56. I went to snorkel / snorkeling in Hawaii. It was spectacular!
57. Carrie reminded me to call / calling Dave and Stacey and invite them over for
dinner.
58. The little girl pretended to be / being sick, so that she didn't have to go to school.

59. She took up playing / to play the piano at the age of six.
60. Constance denied being / to be related to the royal family.
61. The certification program requires me taking / to take several tests.
62. The certification program requires my taking / to take several tests.
63. I told the others to meet / meeting me at the beach after work. Why don't you
come along?
64. Robin talked me into
participating / to participate in the 24-hour dance
marathon.
65. He appreciated us to help / our helping him prepare for the Halloween party.
66. To go / Going skydiving tomorrow will test how brave you are.
67. Don't you need taking / to take a break? You've been working non-stop for over
8 hours!
68. Us to arrive / Our arriving late would be an insult to our dinner hosts.
69. Beth was excited about to meet / meeting the world famous photographer.
70. How did you manage getting / to get tickets for that concert? It has been sold
out for months.
Choose the correct answer for each gap below.
1. Sheryl forgot to bring / bringing her purse, so I lent her ten dollars.
2. I completely forgot to come / coming here when I was a kid. But now I remember!
My parents brought me here when I was three.
3. Lydia really regrets dropping / to drop out of high school. She has really had to
struggle to make a living because of that decision.
4. I regret informing / to inform you that Mr. Smith has passed away.
5. Did you remember to pack / packing your swimsuit? Our vacation in Hawaii won't
be much fun if you can't go swimming.
6. Do you remember being / to be stuck in that elevator when we were in New York?
I thought we would never get out of there!
7. If you can't find the key, try opening / to open the lock with something else, like a
knife or a screwdriver.
8. She tried telling / to tell him the terrible truth, but she just couldn't bring herself to
do it.
9. I dread thinking / to think of what might happen next.
10. I dread going / to go to work tomorrow. I think I'm going to call in sick.
11. Neil is starting learning / to learn Japanese.
12. Neil started learning / to learn Japanese when he moved to Tokyo.
13. Samantha loves living / to live in New York. She has been living there all her life.
14. I would love living / to livein London, but it is too expensive.
15. Tom loves living / to livein smaller towns where he can get to know the locals. He
would never live in a big city.
16. Fred is continuing to take / taking karate lessons even though he broke his
hand.
17. Fred continued taking / to take karate lessons even though he broke his hand.

18. I like to eat / to eat pizza.

19. I would like traveling / to travel back in time and meet my great grandparents.
20. It's so hot in here! I'd like being / to be sitting in my swimming pool right now.
21. Are you ready going / to go yet? The train leaves in 30 minutes!
22. Paul sat on a hill watching / to watch the mother bear and her cubs until they
disappeared into the forest.
23. I took the course learning / to learn more about Asian history.
24. Candice regretted making / to make that comment to Terry, so she apologized
later.
25. My living room needs vacuuming / to vacuum. I think I haven't vacuumed in
more than a month.
26. His plan to walk / walking from New York to Los Angeles seemed crazy, but he
actually did it!
27. We had a great time to sail / sailing from San Diego to Catalina.
28. The runner was too exhausted finishing / to finish the marathon.
29. Oh no! I forgot to turn / turning the iron off after using it. We need to go back
home, so I can turn it off.
30. Nancy loves to work / working at the Museum of Modern Art. She would never
want to work anywhere else.
31. I completely forgot to lend / lending you my electronic dictionary. I thought I had
lost it.
32. Mickey is determined winning / to win the spelling bee at school. He has been
studying for weeks.
33. We spent the whole day sitting / to sit in the train station waiting for the overdue
train to arrive.
34. You just lie there on that couch watching / to watch TV all the time. Get up and
do something!
35. I think I am beginning understanding / to understand this grammar.
36. Mr. McDougall regretted firing / to fire Denise, so he called her up and asked her
to come back to the company.
37. He'll never forget seeing / to see the Rolling Stones in concert!
38. We weren't sure if Sid was fit enough to hike / hiking to the top of the mountain,
but he was the first one there!
39. They prepared leaving / to leave early in the morning.
40. There is no need bringing / to bring anything when you come to my birthday
party. No food, no gifts - just bring yourself.
41. You were fortunate
getting / to get tickets for the concert. I heard they are
already sold out!
42. What is wrong with my computer? It keeps to shut / shutting down by itself.
43. I don't know if I have enough time to finish / finishing all this work before I have
to leave.
44. Mike's desire to see / seeing the world is what made him join the foreign service.
Now, he's working in the embassy in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.
45. The hitchhiker stood on the side of the road to wait / waiting for someone to offer

him a ride.
46. We had fun rafting / to raft down the Colorado river.
47. We stopped to get / getting something to eat at a little diner just next to the
freeway.
48. She stopped to read / reading, closed the book, laid it on the table, and turned off
the light.
49. His bad attitude is starting getting / to get on my nerves.
50. Amy disliked to travel / traveling on the mountain roads at night. She preferred to
travel during the day.
51. They got to the train station too late to catch / catching the train, so they will have
to leave tomorrow.
52. I need to make / making a quick phone call. I'll be back in a second.
53. Louis had some problems buying / to buy train tickets in Beijing since he does
not speak Chinese.
54. I tried to eat / eating the exotic fruit durian while I was in Malaysia, but I didn't
like it at all.
55. Ricky loves being / to be a translator. He has worked as a translator for over
twenty years and he really enjoys what he does.
56. All of the students need permission from their parents to go / going on the field
trip.
57. I am beginning thinking / to think this is a bad idea.
58. The children cowered behind the large rock hoping / to hope the lion wouldn't
see or smell them.
59. Sari's belief in not to eat / eating meat made it difficult to find restaurants while
we were traveling.
60. Sam warned me not to say / saying anything during the tea ceremony, so I didn't
say a word.
61. She just keeps making / to make the same mistake over and over again.
62. I have been trying to contact / contacting Steve, but I still haven't been able to
get in touch with him.
63. Nate goes running / to run every afternoon.
64. On the way home from work, he stopped to buy / buying some groceries.
65. I forgot learning / to learn that word in class. Now I remember! The teacher
wrote it on the board and gave us several example sentences.
66. Don't waste your time to look / looking in the phone book. Just look the address
up on the Internet.
67. Did you remember to unplug / unplugging the iron before we left the house?
68. He despises her constantly to ask / asking him questions while he is working.
69. I know I've met her before. I remember to meet / meeting her at John's party
last summer.
70. After several months of studying Japanese, I am finally beginning understanding
/ to understand native speakers when they talk to me.
71. Fiona and Diedre really want to be invited / being invited to the party.
72. Shelly admitted to have cheated / having cheated on the exam.

73. I recall having visited / to have visited the Grand Canyon once as a child, but I
don't remember it very well.
74. Nathan claims to have graduated / having graduated from Harvard at the age
of 16, but I don't believe him.
75. Mr. Thompson was interested in to be considered / being considered for the
new position as regional manager.
76. Bill to be fired / Bill's being fired one month before he retired was a shock to
the whole company.
77. We were very thrilled having been given / to have been given the opportunity
to speak to the Dalai Lama in person.
78. The applicant not to have studied / The applicant's not having studied
French hurt her chances for the job.
79. Jenny not to have been admitted / Jenny's not having been admitted to
the university upset the entire family.
80. Tina expects the children
to have finished cleaning / having finished
cleaning their rooms before their grandparents arrive this afternoon.
81. She quit complaining / to complain about being / to be unemployed and
decided creating / to create her own job.
82. Naomi's to lose / losing her passport prevented her from to cross / crossing
the border.
83. Do you remember to stand / standing at the top of the Eiffel Tower to watch /
watching the sunset? That's a view I'll never forget!
84. Oh no! The movie is sold out! Do you want to wait / waiting to see / seeing if
we can get tickets for the next showing at 8:30?
85. To go / Going to snowboard / snowboarding next week isn't a good idea
since you keep to have / having problems with your knee. Already to have /
having injured your knee once this year should teach you that you need to be /
being more careful about to push / pushing yourself to return to the slopes.
86. I would love to be / being lying on a beach in Tahiti right now basking / to
bask in the sun. To sit / Sitting in this office all day and being / to be ordered
around by my boss is not an enjoyable way spending / to spend my time.
87. The police chief ordered his officers to keep / keeping to look / looking for
the escaped prisoner. Hopefully, to order / ordering the officers to continue /
continuing to look / looking will result in the prisoner's to be / being captured.
88. Her quitting / to quit her job allowed her to spend / spending more time
caring / to care for her sick parents.
89. Rover, my dog, always tries to jump / jumping over the fence, but he is too small
to do / doing it.
90. The little boy was clinging to his mother's leg screaming / to scream that he
wanted her buying / to buy him a candy bar. The mother refused buyingto buy
the little boy any candy and told him to stop / stopping to cry / crying.
91. Nate deserved to win / winning the prize for writing / to write that amazing
short story about traveling / to travel through Peru. I don't understand his not
receiving / him not to receive the award.
92. I can't believe you wanted to go / going fishing / to fish, and you forgot to

bring / bringing a fishing pole. How did you expect catching / to catch any fish?
Were you just going to sit in the river trying / to try catching / to catch fish with
your bare hands? You would have had a hard time to do / doing that!
93. Vince is determined saving / to save enough money to travel / traveling to
South Africa next year. If he avoids to waste / wasting his money and manages to
save / saving what he needs making / to make the trip, he plans on leaving / to
leave in June.
94. When Sam mentioned to want / wanting going / to go swimming / to
swim, Nina warned his not going / him not to go into the river. She explained that
the national park did not allow visitors' swimming / visitors to swim for several
reasons. The number one reason for
not to permit / not permitting visitors
swimming / to swim was the large number of crocodiles in the park.
95. The Oscar-winning actor avoids to talk / talking to his fans and refuses giving
/ to give his autograph. Moreover, he has difficulty to give / giving interviews and
appears to have / having problems to interact / interacting with other people.
Doesn't he seem way too shy being / to be an actor?
96. Simone and Michael discussed to go / going to Tahiti on their honeymoon, but
they had very different opinions about
visiting / to visit such an expensive
destination. Michael said that after such a costly wedding, he couldn't see to spend /
spending so much money on a vacation. Simone defended their going / them to
go to Tahiti by
arguing / to argue that a honeymoon is a once in a lifetime
experience.
97. Using / To use a search engine looking / to look things up on the Internet is a
skill that all students need to learn / learning. That is why the government is urging
schools' beginning / schools to begin teaching / to teach basic computer skills
in elementary school. Schools also encourage parents' reinforcing / parents to
reinforce these skills at home by to surf / surfing the Internet together with their
children.
98. Samantha kept to have / having problems with her computer at work. Her coworker Denise suggested to shut / shutting down the computer and to restart /
restarting it seeing / to see if that would solve the problem.
99. Jack's interest in learning / to learn foreign languages is a major factor in his
decision moving / to move to China. One of his life-long goals is
to learn /
learning speaking / to speak Chinese fluently. To learn / Learning Chinese will
be quite a challenge, but living / to live in China should enable him to achieve /
his achieving his goal of mastering / to master the language more quickly.
100. Simon's attempts
finding / to find accommodation in Paris were not very
successful. He tried calling / to call every hotel in his guidebook, but he was shocked
to discover / discovering they were all full. He called all the youth hostels finding /
to find out if they had any beds, but they were full, too. Another traveler advised him
to go / going to the tourist information office to ask / asking for help, but the office
was closed. Although Simon hated the idea of leaving / to leave Paris without to
have seen / having seen anything, the thought of to sleep / sleeping in the train
station or walking / to walk the streets all night convinced him to take / his
taking the train to another city looking / to look for accommodation there.