Infinitive constructions

Complex Object

после слов

1. выражающих желание и намерение - to want, wish, desire, intend, mean, etc.

2. обозначающих умственное восприятие - to know, think, consider, believe, suppose, expect, imagine, guess, assume, etc.

3. выражающих приказ, разрешение, просьбу - to order, ask, allow, let, require, cause, have, make, get

4. обозначающих чувственное (физическое) восприятие - to see, hear, feel, watch, observe, notice, etc.

Practice

1. The moderate Secretary of state has seen his influence in the White House grow weaker over the last four years. (US News and World Report) -

2. The Fed said it expected inflation to rise between 1 and 1.5 percent this year. (New York Times) -

3. No one can afford to let this situation continue. (US News and World Report) -

4. The proposal would allow some of the poorest nations of Africa and Asia to sell goods to the US and other Western nations free of any tariffs. (New York Times) -

5. Consider yourself (to be) lucky that I didn’t mention it to the boss! (после consider, declare, find to be может опускаться) -

6. Jill watched the children build sandcastles. -

7. The rescue teams were waiting for the weather to improve.-

8. Can we rely on him to support us? -

9. She appealed to her former husband to return their child. -

10. The human rights group has called on the US to end the death penalty. (US News and World Report) -

11. I’ll get Andrew to give you a call. -

Complex Subject

1. with the following groups ofverbs in the Passive Voice:

To see, to expect, to hear, to believe, to think, to suppose, to consider, to say, to know, to report

Переводятся как говорят, сообщают, известно, ожидается и т.д.

2. with the following parts ofsynonyms in the Active Voice:

To seem, to prove, to appear, to turn out, to happen, to chance

Переводятся как кажется, по-видимому, вероятно, складывается впечатление, оказывается, случилось так, что

3) with word groups containing adjectives/ adverbs.

To be (un) likely, to be sure, to be certain/ to be bound, to be anxious, to be pleased, to be easy, to be happy

Practice

1. The secretary of the state is said to share many of President‘s views and is described to be highly ambitious. (New York Times) -

2. The new secretary of state is seen (to be) as more hawkish than the previous ones. (IHT) -

3. The enterprise seems to be losing momentum. (Moscow Times) -

4. Both the White House and Congress still appear to be inclined to help the airline industry. (New York Times) -

5. The man happens to be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (IHT) -

6. The economic cost of squeezing inflation out of the system proved to have been much greater than it needed to be. (Moscow Times) -

7. Neither Washington nor London wanted a war with Baghdad, but that was the way that turned out to be heading. (BBC) -

8. Human-rights activists seemed (to be) perplexed on hearing the prime minister’s claim that “the police had done nothing wrong”. (BBC) -

9. The new president appeared (to be) satisfied after his win was largely confirmed by the poll. (New York Times) -

10. Thailand’s prime minister is supposed to launch an inquiry because 84 Muslims were killed by the police. (IHT) -

11. The police were supposed to have chosen nonviolent means to stop separatists. (BBC)

12. Senior opposition leaders, who are expected to play a prominent role in a post-Saddam Iraq, met openly with Israeli officials. (IHT) -

13. The National Assembly is supposed to write a constitution and submit it to referendum no later than mid-October.(Observer) -

14. The interest rate and inflation are not expected to remain long at the lowest level. (Observer) -

15. With Italy more than just concerned with keeping its currency stable, the Bank of Italy may be expected to make a substantial exchange rate move that would rock the markets. (IHT) -

For-complex

1. It is no longer possible for each of us to focus on our own concerns. (Observer) -

2. I feel very positive about it. After so many years of waiting for good things to happen, it is finally starting now. -

3. A group of liberal democrats called for voters to boycott the presidential elections. (Washington Times) -

4. It is not for us to decide whether he is guilty or not. -

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