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Infinitive in sentences

The infinitive

🔹 I) Infinitive with "to":

✔️ With wishes, hopes, expectations (want, hope, prefer, would like, expect, wish, manage):

• She would like to meet foreign people. 
• She hopes to see the Prime Minister. 
• We prefer to drive you there. 

🔹 II) Infinitive with a subject:

✔️ To show who will do the action:  expect, advise, teach, tell, ask, want, etc.

• Peter wants his daughter to marry Mike. 
• We expect her to come back. 
• The nurse told her to be patient. 

🔹 III) for + noun / pronoun + infinitive:

✔️ After the preposition "for". With a subject.

•  'This suitcase is too heavy for you to be pulled. You had better take a taxi!  
• - The hotel is not very far for me to walk. 
• - It's time for you to get there. 
• - It's time for me to rest! 

🔹 IV) Infinitive without "to":

✔️ With the verbs "make" and "let":

• The teacher made him revise. 
• Bill didn't let him drive. 

🔹 V) see / hear + infinitive :

✔️ With a full action. Use the -ING form if the action is being done.When we passed her bedroom door we heard the little girl crying. 

• We saw her cry. 
• We heard him shout at her. 

🔹 VI) had better / would rather :

✔️ Infinitive without "to". 
Negation : You had better not answer her.

• She had better go to bed now. 
• She would rather watch TV (than go to bed). 

🔹 VII) Exercise :

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Warning: sentences 4 to 8 are interrogative clauses.

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