Part 32 (1/2)

Notice carefully the use of the infinitives in the following sentences

Underscore all infinitives

1 To renorant is to ree to act

3 Children love to be praised, but hate to be censured

4 To obey is the creed taught the working class by the masters

5 To be exploited has always been the fate of the workers

6 Ferrer wrote on his prison wall, ”To love a woman passionately, to have an ideal which I can serve, to have the desire to fight until I hat more can I wish or ask?”

7 The people wish the man to be punished for the crime

8 Primitive man found plenty of wood to burn

9 We have learned to use coal and oil

10 The lecture to have been given this evening has been postponed

11 They are eager to hear the news

12 He has failed to come

13 We felt the house shake on its foundation

14 Have him find the book for me

15 To be defeated is no crime; never to have dared is the real cri for the poor except to get off their backs

17 To have slept while others fought is your shaht to do, to dream and to dare

Exercise 4

Write sentences containing the six infinitive forms of the verb _obey_

DON'TS FOR INFINITIVES

+165+ +Don't split your infinitives+ Keep the _to_ and the infinitive together as much as possible Don't say, _They intended to never come back_ Say rather, _They intended never to co can bethe adverb modifier between the _to_ and the infinitive, as for exah

It will be found to far exceed our expectations

In these sentences the adverbs _al more closely if they are placed between the _to_ and the infinitive

Ordinarily, however, do not split your infinitives, but place the adverb modifier either before or after the infinitive

+166+ +Don't use _to_ by itself without the rest of the infinitive+ Don't say, _Do as I tell you to_ Say instead, _Do as I tell you to do_; or, _Do as I tell you_ Don't say, _He deceived us once and he is likely to again_ Say rather, _He deceived us once and he is likely to deceive us again_, or _to do so again_

+167+ +Don't use _and_ for _to_ Don't say, _Try and go if you can_

Say instead, _Try to go if you can_