The Complex Object
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 467.
Language Work
Unit 14. Integrated Circuit.
Workplace рабочее место
Take over идти на смену, сменять
Surveillance надзор, инспектирование
Subordinate подчиненный
Superior старший по должности
Seniority старшинство, трудовой стаж
Rigid жесткий суровый
| Subject | Predicate | Object | |
| noun or pronoun in the objective case | (to)* + infinitive | ||
| I/you/we/they | expect don't expect | me/you/him/her/us/them | to repair the car. |
| he/she/it | expects doesn't expect |
*Remember: toisneverused after let, make, see, hear, feel, watch, notice, observein the Active Voice: e.g. We watched the engineer make a hologram. Then he let us experiment with a laser.
The Complex Object is used after the main verbs denoting:
| wish | mental activity | sense perception | awareness | inducement |
| to want to wish to desire need I would like (= I'd like) | to suppose to expect to consider to assume to prove to believe to understand to think to find | to see to hear to feel to watch to notice to observe | to know to find to note to claim to state to declare to pronounce to announce to report | to make to cause to force to let to allow to permit to enable to ask to tell to order to command |
For example:
- We would like you to test the device.
- I consider him to be a professional in his field.
- She found the carburetor to be blocked.
- The engineer told us to stop the experiment.
- The teacher makes us study hard.
- He heard the engine start after a loud click.
Remember:The Infinitive in the Complex Object is often used in the Passive Voice but it is translated into Russian in the Active Voice and is placed before the noun.
For example:
- The engineer allowed the technology to be used. - Инженер разрешил использовать эту технологию
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