Exercise 13. State the function of the for-to-Infinitive Construction. Translate into Russian.
Exercise 4. State the function of the infinitive. Translate into Russian.
1. A man must have something bigger than himself to believe in. (Jones) 2. It was impossible not to invite the Butiers for both afternoon and evening. (Dreiser) 3. The heat and dust were enough to strangle you. (Cain) 4. To cut a long story short, the infant that's just gone out of the room is not your son. (Maugham) 5....the next thing to be done is to move away from this house. (Eliot) 6. All the deep maternity in her awoke, never to sleep again. (Buck) 7. He paused as if to find a way to phrase his next thoughts. (Mailer) 8. Nobody asked you to come out here. I didn't ask you to stay. I told you to go while it was daylight. (Faulkner) 9. It was too hot to go out into the town. (Hemingway) 10. The prospective buyer is someone who is not, to put it mildly, a supporter of female emancipation. To consent to this sale would be to consent to change the character of the newspaper altogether. (Murdoch) 11. He had been one of the first to become interested in the development of the street-car system. (Dreiser) 12. The floor of the forest was soft to walk on. (Hemingway) 13. He was a man to attract immediate sympathy. (Maugham) 14. He knew he must say anything at all in order to establish communication with her. (Horgan) 15. After all, you're young enough to be my son. (Clark) 16. To begin with, he did not like the way his editor... had spoken to him that morning. (Priestley) 17. To make the real decisions, one's got to have the real power. (Snow) 18. To know all is to forgive all. (Priestley) 19. Other people, men particularly, found it difficult to face Cowperwood's glazed stare. (Dreiser) 20. It must be awful to have a brilliant future behind you. (Snow) 21. She makes a gesture as if to touch him. (Shaw) 22. Indeed, she had nowhere to go. (Murdoch) 23. To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. (Wilde) 24. He found the sky so pallid as to be almost invisible. (Baum) 25. He dropped back, so as to let me get on a level with him. (Collins) 26. When he met Sabina at the station, she came to him with a joyous expression of anticipation to find his troubled silence. (Wilson) 27. Rubin did not, in any case, find it easy to be as direct as Roger. (Snow) 28. True insincerity is hard to find. (Priestley) 29. She leaned forward with kindled eyes as if to impress the word on the inspector. (Lindsay) 30. She's a spoiled child not to be trusted. (Galsworthy) 31. It is against all ethical concepts of medical science to pronounce a death verdict to a gravely ill person. (Baum) 32. His age was difficult to guess. (Wilson) 33. They were the last to come. (Maugham) 34. I awoke a little after sunrise to find Evan gone. (Hansford Johnson) 35. Truth to tell, he wanted to say a great deal. (Dreiser) 36. Her large eyes were of a blue so pale as to be almost white. (Murdoch) 37. Her first proceeding... was to unlock a tall press, bring out'several bottles,, and pour some of the contents of each into my mouth. (Dickens) 38. To lie is not my custom. Too much complication and uncomfort. (Baum) 39. I had many weary hours still to wait through. To while away the time, I looked at my letters. (Collins) 40. To begin with, Mrs. Anderson is a pleasanter person to Hye with than Mrs. Dudgeon. (Shaw) 41. With another look round at the furniture, as if to gauge his sister's exact position, Soames went out towards Piccadilly. (Galsworthy) 42. Three or four plans suggested themselves, only to be ruled out by their self-evident absurdity. (Hansford Johnson) 43. But the heat of the afternoon was, to say the least, oppressive. (Salinger) 44. It was then an easy matter for me to go to Paul's room and make an appropriate signal to Kitty, and she turned back, up the street to disappear round the corner into Church Square. (Clark) 45. It was charming to see him play with the two children. (Maugham) 46. I happen to know that he was supposed to come to the wedding. (Salinger) 47. Gertrude gave a long soft exhalation. It made the young man smile at her again; and this smile made her blush a little. (James) 48. Your shortest way will be to follow the boulevard, and cross the park... but it is too late and too dark for a woman to go through the park alone. (Ch. Bronte) 49. In spite of herself the colour fled from her cheeks instantly, only to come back in a hot, defiant wave. (Dreiser) 50. Some of the rumours we knew to be nonsense, but not all. (Snow)
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Exercise 13. State the function of the for-to-Infinitive Construction. Translate into Russian.
1. There was no home for him to goto. (/. Shaw)2. He waited for me to sit down. (Hemingway) 3. It seemed almost a shame for anyone to be as pretty as she was tonight. (Snow) 4. And it is not fpr you to make terms. It is for you to accept them. (Wilde) 5. There's nothing for us to do but amuse ourselves. (Maugham) 6. But the pain in James' head asserted itself too cruelly for him to think of anything else for the moment. (Young) 7. He cordially extended one forefinger for Erik to shake. (Wilson) 8. Some trouble with the authorities had made it necessary for him to be much abroad. (Maugham) 9. There were plenty of papers for him to read, but he left them alone. (Priestley) 10. Since you are so anxious for me to; distinguish myself I have concluded to do so. (Stone) 11. It is impossible for me to write about that time in detail — I can't bear to. (Hansford Johnson) 12. He opened the door of his room for her to go out. (Murdoch) 13. Buttonwood street, where he spent the first ten years of his life, was a lovely place for a boy to live. (Dreiser) 14. She longed for night to come to bring sleep to her. (Cronin) 15. It was really warm for May, and still light enough for him to see his cows in the meadow beyond the river. (Galsworthy) 16.... the idea is for us to give a special concert at the Festival Hall. (Lessing) 17. My house is always ready for anyone to come into. (Shaw) 18. My dear, this isn't the time for us to quarrel. (Hansford Johnson) 19. Erik saw that she was impatient for him to be gone. (Wilson) 20. He waited for Bert to say something. (Caldwell)
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