The Infinitive. Инфинитив – неопределённая форма глагола, формальным признаком которой является

(Инфинитив)

Инфинитив – неопределённая форма глагола, формальным признаком которой является частица to.

Чаще всего инфинитив употребляется после того или иного глагола в личной форме, либо после модального глагола (без частицы to).Например:

I like to play computer games.

Я люблю играть в компьютерные игры.

I can speak English well.

Я могу хорошо говорить по-английски.

В предложении инфинитив может выполнять следующие функции:

а) подлежащего:

To know English is helpful.

Знать (знание) английского полезно.

б) части сказуемого:

Our task is to adjust the program to the computer.

Наша задача – приспособить программу к компьютеру.

в) прямого дополнения:

The teacher asked to hand in course papers.

Преподаватель попросил сдать курсовые работы.

г) определения:

A.S. Popov was the first to invent the radio.

Попов был первым, кто изобрёл радио.

д) обстоятельство цели:

To be good specialists you must study hard.

Чтобы быть хорошими специалистами, вы должны усердно учиться.

8. Read and translate the sentences in which the infinitive is used as:

1) subject

To be a programmer is very honorable today. To answer this question means to find a solution of the problem. To study programming languages will be our next task. To explain this fact is not very easy. To check the result of the calculation is important.

2) adverbial modifier:

To work successfully with the modern programs the students of our speciality must know English rather well. To become a good specialist one must study hard. The assistant came to instruct students how to write a program. To program in a good way the programmer needs detailed data about the program and the way how to do it. Industrial plants, factories use computers to control production. Our graduates must have wide knowledge to work with computer.

3) part of a predicate:

The main idea of this report was to analyze the development of science in the Middle Ages. The aim of that author has been to show some newly developed methods. The main tendency in modern microelectronics is to reduce the size of apparatus.

4) object:

Radioengineers help to produce special radioelectronic equipment for medicine, meteorology, geology, space research. It is difficult but interesting to study at Information Technologies Faculty. I’d like to take part in the international conference on programming. Computer equipment helps to solve many problems dealing with collecting, processing and analyzing the data. It is impossible to name a sphere of science, engineering or national economy where radioengineering equipment is not used.

5) attribute:

The students of our University have all conditions to become highly-qualified specialists. B.Pascal was the first to invent the adding machine. There was a lot to discuss at the seminar. The task to master programming is very actual today.

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