Infinitive

Инфинитив Инфинитив представляет собой неличную форму глагола, которая только называет действие, не указывая ни лица, ни числа. Инфинитив отвечает на вопросы что делать? что сделать?: to read читать, прочесть; to write писать, написать; to buy покупать, купить.

p. 84 Infinitive with to and without to Формальным признаком инфинитива является частица to, которая не имеет самостоятельного значения. Однако частица to перед инфинитивом часто опускается. Инфинитив имеет формы времени и залога: ActivePassive Indefinite Continuous Perfect Perfect Continuous to ask to be asking to have asked to have been asking to be asked to have been asked -----

В каких случаях инфинитив используется с частицей "to", а в каких - без? Добавьте "to", если необходимо: I heard the front door ____ open. 2. I hate you ____ be late. 3. Granny watched the children ____ playing. 4. I want you ___ buy some bread. 5. Would you like me ____ read this text? 6. The parents made the boy ____ stay at home. 7. I saw a strange man ____ enter the house. 8. Let me ___ explain this rule to you.

Translate the sentences with Infinitive )To use language is a human activity. 2)To do something, and to know just what you are doing, are not the same things. 3)To answer these questions requires a general theory of human life. 4)So as to understand development we must understand the distinction between quantitative change and qualitative change. 5)To discover the truth, we must start from personal experience. 6)In order to understand things so as to change them we must study them. 7)To know everything is to know nothing. 8)It is often difficult to avoid a metaphysical way of thinking. 9)Research to be carried out now is of great importance. 10)The problem to be solved is under discussion now. 11)The position to be taken by this scientist is rather strange. 12)The discovery to be made will be of certain value.