- •Verbals
- •2. As a predicative after a link verb.
- •4. As a part of a simple verbal predicate in negative and interrogative sentences :
- •5. As a part of a compound verbal modal predicate :
- •6. As a part of a compound verbal aspect (aspective) predicate the infinitive follows :
- •7. As a direct object :
- •I trust them to solve the problem.
- •I encouraged her to tell everything.
- •8. As an attribute :
- •9. As an adverbial modifier of purpose :
- •10. As an adverbial modifier of result :
- •It’s warm enough to bathe. (достаточно)
- •5.Adverbial Modifier of Purpose : Here is some pastry they left for you to eat with
- •6.Adverbial Modifier of Result:
- •Complex Object Construction.
- •I see that you don't know this poem by heart.
- •I've noticed that you liked classical music.
- •The Complex Subject Construction
- •I am believed competent but I am not.
- •Exercise 7. Define the infinitive as a part of a compound verbal modal or aspective predicate.
- •Exercise 8. Translate the text into English using the infinitive in the function of a par of a compound verbal predicate. Что я люблю… и чего не люблю…
- •Exercise 9. Define the function of the infinitive in the following sentences.
- •Exercise 10. Read the following text and analyse the infinitive in different syntactic functions. On Reading
- •Exercise 11. Translate the following sentences into Russian, define the infinitive in different syntactic functions.
- •Exercise 12. Translate into English, using the infinitives in different syntactic functions.
- •Exercise 13. Identify the For-to- Constructions. Translate the sentences into Russian.
- •Exercise 14. Practice the For-to Construction after a noun phrase.
- •Exercise 15. Replace the following groups of sentences by a sentence with a for-phrase subject.
- •Exercise 16. Replace the following pairs of sentences by sentences with adverbial for-phrases of result.
- •Exercise 17. Complete the following sentences adding for-phrase to them.
- •Exercise 18. Define the functions of the for-phrase in the following sentences.
- •Exercise 19. Answer the following questions using the for-complex.
- •Exercise 20. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Exercise 21. Define the coc and translate the sentences into Russian. Use one proverb in the situation of your own.
- •Exercise 22. Paraphrase the following sentences using the coc.
- •Exercise 23. Replace the following simple sentences into the ones with the coc.
- •Exercise 24. Translate the verse into Russian underline the coc.
- •I saw dawn creep across the sky,
- •I saw the sea put on its dress
- •I heard the wind call out and say:
- •Exercise 25. Insert the infinitives in bracket in to the proper form.
- •Exercise 26. Analyse the structure of the co in the following sentences and explain the reasons of the absence of the structure in some sentences.
- •Exercise 27. Insert the particle to where necessary.
- •Exercise28. Complete the following sentences.
- •Exercise 29. Translate the sentences into English using the coc where necessary.
- •Exercise 31. Change the following sentences so that to use csc.
- •Exercise 32. Open the brackets and use the csc.
- •Exercise 33. Translate the following jokes with csc.
- •Exercise 34. Translate into English.
- •Exercise 35. Translate the following extracts from English, define the function of the infinitive.
- •Exercise 36. Translate the text given below, explain the functions of the infinitive.
- •Exercise 37. Translate from Russian into English using the infinitive in different syntactic functions.
- •Appendix
- •Contents
- •Список литературы.
- •Источники :
Exercise 9. Define the function of the infinitive in the following sentences.
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require. (W. Shakespeare)
London is one of the biggest cities in the world and, of course, there are a lot of things to do and places to visit there.
Plow deep while others sleep. And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
None but the well-bred man knows how to confess himself in a fault or to acknowledge in an error. (B. Franklin)
Men and melons are hard to know.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. (A. Christie)
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt. (P.Anderson)
We can only hope that the art of talking is not destined to die out with the art of letter writing. (A. Repplier)
It would never have occurred to Old Jolyon that it was necessary to wear a look of doubt or defiance.
On June, 15, 1886, about four of the afternoon, the observer who chanced to be present at the house if old Jolyon Forsyte in Stanhope Gate, might nave seen the highest efflorescence of the Forsytes.
Each member of the Forsytes has the peculiarity as if to personify the whole family.
Is it worth taking so much pain to leave no memorial but a few poems. (S. Johnson)
Books are composed of words and words have two functions to perform: they give information and or they create an atmosphere (E. M. Foster).
“The high mission of the Press!” Poor Press! As if it were in a position to have a mission! It is we who have a mission to it. (E. M. Foster).
To cure a man through the newspapers or through propaganda of any sort is impossible: you merely alter the symptoms of his disease. (E. M. Foster)
“I like winter to be winter with snow instead of rain”
But he went away with the resolution to see her again.
The attraction for him of this great church was inexplicable, unless it enabled him to concentrate his thoughts on the business of the day.
He had little to say of the drawing or dining room.
He’s got nobody to leave his money to.
To have approved his son’s conduct in that crash was, of course, impossible; reason and training –– that combinations of potent factors which stood for his principles –– told him of this impossibility, but his heart cried out.
21.Florian’s Song had the power to dispel the gloom of his loneliness.
Exercise 10. Read the following text and analyse the infinitive in different syntactic functions. On Reading
Read to get background information and to search information on scientific points. You do not have to read the whole of every book, but even those that can be read as a whole, can also be read in part, to get just information that you need at the time. This is good way to start reading about the subject, because you will remember best those things that you find most interesting.
It is best to start with recent publications on any subject to find the present position and to be guarded by your special interests to earlier literature. In deciding how far back to go the important consideration is the amount of the time available.
What you have decided what to read, be it the title, the introduction, the summary or the whole text, remember that an effort is required of the reader as well as of the writer. Scientists should write carefully so that readers may grasp the meaning quickly; but this can be so only if each word is read.
Read carefully, to make sure that you take the intended meaning. Read critically, as a stimulus to thinking. Weigh the words and consider the evidence and arguments. These questions should be in your mind: What is being said? Is it properly formulated? Are the underlying assumptions correct? Are the statements supported by sufficient arguments?