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Functions of infinitive

Function

Conjunction

Examples

SUBJECT*

________

To translate this text is easy.

It is easy to translate this text.

PREDICATIVE*

________

My intention is to accept that offer.

PART of a

PREDICATIVE

________

The text is easy to translate.

PART of a COMPOUND VERBAL MODAL PREDICATE *

________

He is going to translate the text.

He may be translating the text at the moment.

He can’t have translatedthe text by noon.

He’d better translate the text for tomorrow.

He’s eager to translate the text himself.

PART of a COMPOUND VERBAL ASPECT PREDICATE

_________

began

He continued to translate the text.

ceased

PART of a SIMPLE PREDICATE *

_________

He didn’t translate the text.

He will have translated it by five.

OBJECT *

_________

He plans to accept that offer.

He is glad to have accepted the offer.

ATTRIBUTE

__________

Was he the last to leave?

PARENTHESIS

_________

To tell the truth, he will not accept our offer.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of PURPOSE

(in order), (so as), as if, etc.

She opened her handbag (in order) to look for the key.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of

CONDITION

__________

He is a popular singer. You wouldn’t believe it, to look at him.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of REASON

_________

He is foolish not to accept the offer.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of

EXCEPTION

except, but, save

What could he do but accept the offer?

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of

SUBSEQUENT

EVENTS

_________

He went to London to die there of pneumonia

He rushed into the room to find nobody there.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of TIME

_________

He lived to be ninety

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of RESULT

so ….. as

such …. as

too

He is too much of a coward to do that.

Of course, she wouldn’t be such a fool as to marry Tom.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIER of

COMPARISON

than

You ought to know better than (to) ask questions like that.

* In these cases the Perfect Infinitive may occur.

Classification of Predicates

1. The Simple Verbal Predicate

The simple verbal predicate is expressed by a notional verb in one of its finite forms in:

the Tense – Present, Past or Future;

Aspect – Common (Non-Continuous) or Continuous;

Correlation – Non-Perfect or Perfect;

Voice – Active or Passive;

Mood – Indicative, Imperative, Subjunctive I, Subjunctive II, Conditional or Suppositional.

The infinitive functions as part of a simple verbal predicate in analytical forms:

The day will bebright and sunny.Do you intend to come back? We didn’t find anybody in the house .Will it have been finished by Monday?

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