The Complex Subject
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 471.
The Complex Subject
Compare:
| It is said that the car is broken. The car is said to be broken. | Говорят, что машина сломана. |
| Subject | Predicate (the expressions, the Passive Voice) | Subject (to + infinitive) | |
| I | am (not) | likely supposed | to know Physics well. |
| You/we/they | are (not) | ||
| He/she/it | is (not) | ||
| Predicate (the Active Voice) | |||
| You/we/they | seem | ||
| He/she/it | doesn't seem |
noun/personal pronoun(nominative case)+verb+infinitive
The Complex Subjectis used with the following:
| Expressions | Verbs in the Passive Voice | Verbs in the Active Voice |
| to be likely to be unlikely to be sure to be certain | to say to know to think to report to suppose to expect to consider to assume to believe to see to hear etc. | to seem/ to appear to prove/ to turn out to happen/ to occur |
For example:
· The project is likely to be completed soon.
· The Sun is considered to provide us with all the energy we need.
· We happened to work together for the same company.
1. Fill in the table:
| Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb | Translation | Transcription |
| collect | |||||
| base | basic | ||||
| mount | |||||
| satellite | спутник | 
n
| |||
| square | 
n,v,adj,adv
| ||||
| construct | |||||
| utilize | использование | 
v
| |||
| advantage(of/over) | |||||
| beam | луч | ||||
| find | |||||
| involve | |||||
| light | light | ||||
| permit | |||||
| purpose | цель | 
n
| |||
| reference | refer (to) | ||||
| research | |||||
| sensitive | чувствительность | ||||
| shape | shape | ||||
| size | |||||
| hour | |||||
| quality |
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| Forms of the Infinitive | | | Divide the words into four columns according to their part of speech (verb, noun, adjective, adverb). |