5. Инфинитив

1.

He is said to had been met by a boy.

2.

The method proposed by the younger engineer is known be very effective.

3.

I took a taxi for her not to walk to the station.

4.

Electronics is said to be a young science.

5.

The electric generator is known to been a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

6.

Alpha rays are considered to be positively charged helium atoms.

7.

I saw her to execute the program.

8.

For the pressure to be reduced to save limits the foundations may be widened.

9.

Real water vapor and steam are known to be completely invisible.

10.

We consider nuclear energy be the prime source of heat energy.

INDEFINITE

CONTINUOUS

PERFECT

PERFECT CONTINUOUS

Active

To speak

To be speaking

To have spoken

To have been speaking

Passive

To be told

_______

To have been told

_________

Функция

Пример

Подлежащее - инфинитив занимает позицию перед сказуемым.

For e-mail to get a massage to the other side of the world is a matter of a second or two.

Дополнение-инфинитив занимает место после сказуемого.

It is impossible to imagine our civilization without electricity.

Обстоятельство - инфинитив стоит в начале предложения перед подлежащим или в конце предложения.

To make the program easier, to write and to overcome the problem of intercommunication between different types of machines, higher-level languages were developed such as –BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada, C and other programs.

Определение - инфинитив стоит после существительного, к которому оно относится или субстантивированной части речи.

American people were the first to see a television set in action.

Сказуемое -1)инфинитив следует за глаголом – связкой to be

2)инфинитив является частью составного глагольного сказуемого, если он следует за модальным глаголом, фазовым глаголом, глаголом со значением желания или намерения.

You can watch several programs simultaneously on miniscreens and then produce one of them in full format.

To hesitate is to lose.

The problem is how to do it.