1. i felt it my duty to him. 2. i flet it my duty him. 3. i make it a rule to get up at six. 4. i make it a rule getting up at six. 5. i found it easy to memorize the poems. 6. i found it easy memorizing the poems. 7. we consider it foolish of him to try it again. 8. we consider it foolish his trying it again. can we use the gerund instead of the to-infinitive? are they all grammatical? it seems that the to-infinitive is used more frequently.

Read the excerpt from the land. of my brothers, i was closest with robert. i suppose, in part, being the same year's children made us close, but there were other things too. we had been together practically since birth, and we always took care of each other. when i got into trouble, robert was there to pull me out of it if he could, or at least to see me through it, and i did the same for him. the passage provides evidence of why paul and robert have physical conflicts. paul and robert avoid social conflicts. paul is the least influenced by robert. paul is motivated to ask robert for .