- •Передмова
- •The noun
- •Guide to Forming Plurals
- •Irregular plurals
- •Inanimate nouns in personification
- •Exercises
- •London Favourite Stores
- •The article
- •Special difficulties in the use of articles
- •Exercises
- •Esop and his Fables
- •The farmer and his Sons
- •In Search of …Good Job
- •Exercise 23
- •The adjective
- •The Category of Degrees of Comparison
- •Irregular Comparative and Superlative Forms
- •Comparative Constructions with the Adjectives
- •Some difficulties in the use of the Adjective: Degrees of Comparison
- •Adjectives referring to Countries, Nationalities and Languages
- •Nationalities
- •Compound Adjectives
- •Word Order of Adjectives before a Noun
- •Noun modifiers
- •Adverbs Or Adjectives: confusing cases.
- •Adjectives ending in –ed: pronunciation
- •Exercises
- •Never Again!
- •Exercise 25
- •A Bigger Heart
- •Modal verbs
- •Can / could
- •Exercises
- •May / might
- •Exercises
- •Must, have to, be to
- •Exercises
- •____________ Have to
- •Dare and need
- •Exercises
- •Shall / should, ought to
- •Exercises
- •How would you cope around the world?
- •Will / would
- •Exercises
- •General review of all modals
- •Instructions:
- •(The Verbals)
- •The Infinitive
- •The Predicative
- •The Object
- •The Attribute
- •The Adverbial Modifier of Purpose
- •The Adverbial Modifier of Result.
- •The Secondary Predicative
- •Infinitive without Particle to (Bare Infinitive)
- •Omitted “to”
- •Reduced Infinitive
- •Infinitive constructions
- •The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction
- •The Subjective Infinitive Construction
- •The Subject
- •The Object
- •Beach Safety
- •Exercise 35
- •It is important / useful / necessary /
- •The gerund
- •The Subject
- •The Predicative
- •The Direct Object
- •The Prepositional Object
- •The Attribute
- •The Adverbial Modifier
- •The Subject
- •The Predicative
- •The Direct Object
- •The Prepositional Object
- •The Attribute
- •The Adverbial Modifier
- •Exercises
- •The participle
- •The Objective Participial Construction
- •The Subjective Participial Construction
- •The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction
- •Exercises
- •Survival for hikers
- •Exercise 34
- •General review of all verbals
- •Forms Expressing Unreality in Different Types of Subordinate Clauses
- •The Use of the Subjunctive Mood in Conditional Sentences
- •The First Conditional
- •The Second Conditional
- •The Third Conditional
- •Exercises
- •Exercise 10
- •In the President’s Chair
- •Would you stay silent if …
- •Would you feel afraid of if …
- •Would you cry if …
- •List of Sources
- •Internet Sources
- •Contents
The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction
This construction consists of a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the objective case and the infinitive (mostly Indefinite or Passive). It is always an object in the sentence.
To see to hear to feel to watch (or any lexical equivalent of the verb of sense perception) |
smb. do smth. |
to let to make to have to get |
smb. do smth. |
to order to allow to forbid |
smb. to do smth. smth. to be done |
to like to prefer to want to know to like to expect (or any lexical equivalent of the verb of mental activity, wish or intention) |
smb. to do smth |
E.g. I believe it to have been a mistake.
They reported the enemy to be ten miles away.
I want you to come along with us.
I hate you to be troubled.
I saw him get on the bus this morning.
What makes you think it was me?
Let him sit here if he wants.
The Subjective Infinitive Construction
The construction consists of a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the nominative case and any of the six forms of the infinitive. The construction is considered to be the subject of the sentence.
smb |
is was will be |
seen heard expected told ordered asked allowed |
to do smth to be done |
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smb |
is was will be |
known supposed believed considered |
to do smth to be done to be doing smth to have done smth to have been done to have been doing smth |
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smb |
is was will be |
sure certain bound (not) likely |
to do smth to be done to be doing smth to have done smth to have been done to have been doing smth |
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smb |
seems, seemed, will seem appears, appeared, will appear happens, happened, will happen proved, will prove turned out, will turn out |
to do smth to be done to be doing smth to have done smth to have been done to have been doing smth |
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E.g. She was heard to laugh heartily.
He is supposed to have left.
He is said to be a good doctor.
He seems to notice nothing unusual.
The girl appeared to be everybody’s attention.
He is sure to come.
He was not likely to have made a mistake.
The for-to-Infinitive Construction
This construction consists of three elements: the preposition for, a noun in the common case or a pronoun in the objective case and an infinitive, mostly in its Indefinite, Passive or Continuous form. The construction has different syntactical functions in the sentence.
The Subject
It |
is was will be would be |
hard easy good bad important impossible not |
for smb
for smth |
to do smth to be doing smth to be done |
E.g. It will be best for her to go back home.
It’s easier for me to go out and buy a new pair.
It’s silly for you to be asking me questions.
It is not for me to say so.
It |
is was will be |
nice kind sensible silly stupid tactless |
of smb |
to do smth |
E.g. It was silly of you to ask that question.
It is kind of you to say so.
It will be very sensible of you to go there at once.