Part 23 (1/2)

_Wherever participles or gerunds are i sentences, correct the sentences so as to avoid such impropriety

See --107 for rule as to punctuation:_

1 Having assented to your plan, you try to holdto the need of an experienced architect

3 It was decided to send his son abroad being anxious for his health

4 On hearing that, a new plan was reat load of luo to the theater, the whole afternoon was spent in town

7 He was taken into the fir the lesson prepared, he told John to stay after class

9 No letter ritten forconsiderable anxiety

10 Expecting us to coaloud to the class, they do not gain much

13 He had to wait several hours for the train, thus causing hireat deal of valuable ti to his lecture for an hour he became tiresome

15 We listened attentively to his lecture, thus showing our interest

72 INFINITIVES The Infinitives are formed by the word _to_ and some part of the verb or of the verb and auxiliary For _see_ and _play_ as model verbs, the infinitives are as follows:

PRESENT ACTIVE PRESENT PassIVE to see to be seen to play to be played

PRESENT PERFECT ACTIVE PRESENT PERFECT PassIVE to have seen to have been seen to have played to have been played

The word _to_ is frequently os and forms as do the infinitives above

It is necessary to know the difference between the two tenses, since the misuse of tenses leads to a certain class of errors

73 SEQUENCE OF INFINITIVE TENSES The wrong tense of the infinitive is frequently used The following rules should be observed:

1 If the action referred to by the infinitive is of the same time or of later time than that indicated by the predicate verb, the PRESENT INFINITIVE should be used

2 When the action referred to by the infinitive is regarded as completed at the time indicated by the predicate verb, the PERFECT INFINITIVE should be used

Exa: _I should have liked to have gone_

Right: _I should have liked to go_ (saone_ (earlier ti: _It was bad to have been discovered_

Right: _It is bad to have been discovered_ (earlier tiht: _It was bad to be discovered_ (saht: _She did not believe her son to have coht: _When he died, he believed himself to have been defeated for the office_ (earlier ti sentences choose the proper form from those italicized:_

1 I was sorry _to have heard to hear_ of John's death

2 Should you have been willing _to go to have gone_ with us?

3 The game was intended _to be played to have been played_ yesterday

4 I intended _to write to have written_ long ago

5 He wished _to have met to meet_ you

6 I should have liked _to one to go_

8 Nero was seen _to have fiddled to fiddle_ while Rome burned