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    Gerund or Infinitive

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    Gerund and infinitive part 2 INFINITIVE OF PURPOSE : IN ORDER TO “In Order To” is used to express a purpose. The statement answer the question “Why?”. In order to is always followed by verb1. Optionally‚ “in order” is often ignored or omitted‚ shorten “in order + infinitive” to just the infinitive “to + verb”. “In order to” sounds a bit more formal and explicit than “to” by itself‚ but both are equally possible in both spoken and written English. FORMULA : Subject + verb + object +

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    the infinitive

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    The Infinitive Инфинитив The infinitive is a verbal form (a non-finite verb form) which consists of the base form of the verb with the particle "to": to do; to go; to play; to take; to break; to find. Инфинитив – это отглагольная форма (неличная форма глагола)‚ которая состоит из базовой формы глагола с частицей "to": to do; to go; to play; to take; to break; to find. The English infinitive and the Russian non-finite verb form have similar features. At the same time‚ the infinitive in English

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    The Gerund

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    The Forms of the Gerund | Active | Passive | Indefinite | writing | being written | Perfect | having written | having been written | THE GERUND The nominal characteristics | The verbal characteristics | 1*.can perform the function of subject‚ object and predicative. [e.g. They say smoking leads to meditation. (Collins) (SUBJECT) I like making people happy. (Shaw) (OBJECT) The duty of all progressive mankind is fighting for peace.(PREDICATIVE)] | 1. *of transitive

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    Verb and Gerund

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    the gerund. I have chosen this subject‚ because I want to know more about the gerund. There are several reasons for it: 1)1 want know more about the gerund‚ because it will help me in my future studying‚ will help me not to produce errors ; 2) Since most languages ( e.g.: Spanish‚ Russian‚ French) have infinitives‚ but no gerunds; 3) This will help me to increase my outlook. I think the use of the gerunds in English is problem‚ because use infinitive is easier‚ and How I wrote above the gerund is

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    Verb and Gerund

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    GERUND Create by: Dian sipayung CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of The Study For every human‚ language is one important things to communicate to each other. Because language is one media to make one relationship and know the other people by the communication. There are many language in the world. One of that is English as international language. English is the one of international language because of almost the people in the world know English as a second language after their mother

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    Latin Infinitives

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    Infinitives General: An infinitive is‚ strictly speaking‚ an abstract verbal noun. The infinitive is used in Latin‚ as in English‚ as a noun: Errare humanum est = To err is human. When so used‚ the Latin infinitive is an indeclinable neuter noun. The infinitive is also used in Latin‚ as in English‚ to complete the meaning of another verb (complementary infinitive): Possum videre = I am able to see. Unlike English‚ Latin rarely uses an infinitive to indicate purpose. The infinitive is most

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    теоретическая грамматика THE FOR-TO-INFINITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS Выполнила: студентка 07-91гр. 4 курса факультета лингвистики Кравчук Евгения Александровна Сургут‚ 2012 The for-to-Infinitive Construction is a construction in which the infinitive is in predicate relation to a noun or pronoun preceded by the preposition for. The for-to-Infinitive Construction is expressed by a noun in the common case or a personal pronoun in the objective case and an infinitive with the particle to. In translating

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    106 GRAMMAR ONLINE PRACTICE : G2 > Gerunds and infinitives A) Use the GERUND or INFINITIVE forms of the verbs in brackets by highlighting the answers. The first one is done for you. 1. After she had decided (stay) in Turkey‚ she got used to (eat) Turkish foods. After she had decided to stay in Turkey‚ she got used to eating Turkish foods. 2. They seem (have) plenty of money. They seem to have plenty of money 3. I’m sorry sir‚ I’m late‚ but I promise (not / be) late again I’m

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    IMPORTANCE OF GERUND The Gerund: Gerunds are funny — they look like verbs‚ they sound like verbs‚ but they’re not verbs — they’re nouns! SpSpecificallyecifically‚ gerunds are action-oriented verbs that function as nouns. This always has the same function as a noun (although it looks like a verb)‚ so it can be used: As the subject of the sentence: Eating people is wrong. After prepositions: Can you sneeze without opening your mouth? She is good at painting After certain verbs‚ e.g.

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