Exercise 1. Insert “to” where necessary before the infinitive in brackets.
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Infinitive without TO
The Infinitive
The infinitives are the to-infinitive (He promisedto help me) and the bare infinitive (I must leave now).
We use the to-infinitive:
· to express purpose. I woke up early to catch the morning train.
· after adjectives such as advice, agree, appear, decide, expect, hope, offer, promise, refuse, seem, want, etc. They decided to sell their old car.
· after certain verbs such as nice, sorry, glad, happy, afraid, easy, difficult, etc. It's easy to learn how to drive a car.
· after would prefer. I would prefer to live in the country.
· after too and enough. He's too young to cross the street. I've saved enough money to buy a car.
| After auxiliary verbs | I do not like it. We will do it tomorrow. |
| After MODAL VERBS butought | He can swim. We must be off. |
| After verbs of feeling and emotion see, hear, feel | I saw and heard him come. I felt my pulse quicken. |
| After let– äîçâîëÿòè, make – çìóøóâàòè | Let us visit him. She made me come back. |
| After had better would rather cannot but nothing but | We had better go to France. I would rather visit England. |
1. I can't ________________(see) anything. It's so dark.
2. Let's ________________(go) to Rome for our holiday.
3. We'd love __________________(meet) your wife.
4. Could you __________________(tell) me the time, please?
5. Keep working. Don't let me _________________(interrupt) you.
6. John forgot ___________________(turn off) the lights when he went to bed.
7. I felt the house _______________(shake) with the explosion.
8. He made us ___________________(wait) for hours.
9. May I _______________(use) your phone?
10. The teacher usually lets us ______________ (use) our dictionary to do the translations.
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| The forms of the Verbals or the non-finite forms of the verb | | | Exercise 3. Use the infinitives in the box as subjects. |