Recast the following sentences so as to use predicative constructions with the gerund. Use prepositions where required.
1. Presently I became aware that someone was moving softly about this room.
2. I was about to suggest that you should lunch with me.
3. For my part I had never before suspected that Kate had a deep vein of superstition in her nature.
4. I cut short his lamentations, by suggesting that we should start for the camp at
once.
5. I like you so much because you are such a good cook.
6. I boasted that my father was different; he would understand that I was an artist.
7. She took a peculiar delight in the fact that he was Peter’s son.
8. He felt proud of the fact that he had been able to win a woman whom everybody admired.
9. She gave no sign that she heard that he had slammed the door.
10.She insisted that he should drop his voice.
11.He was clever, no one had ever denied that he was clever.