Infinitive as Part of Compound Verbal Modal Predicate
1. To open my eyes in a strange place and not to be able to remember anything that might have brought me here was very uneasy and disturbing. Then I noticed a bandage on my hand stained with blood and it wasn't difficult to guess that I must have fainted like I always would at the sight of blood.
2. “Now why not tell me the truth, Jane? You have been accused, and you must have the chance to defend yourself,” she said and her tone was too stern to disobey.
3. “I don't think he would have laughed. For him to do so when he was in such danger?” she said. 'You must have been dreaming.”
4. “Don't be foolish. It's not just a scratch, and the wound may be infected,' answered Peter. “Listen, Jane, I'll have to leave you with Edward while I fetch the doctor. You must wipe away the blood with the damp cloth and help him to drink a little water.” I nodded and nervously watched him leave the room. I could hear him turning the key in the lock.
5. You've been caught red-handed, so why not confess that to have set everything up was your idea? I saw sneaking out when you should have been working on the project.
6. You should have waited till the morning, and then we could have seen her together. To have gone to her without me was very selfish of you. Now she must think of me as a heartless person.
7. The ceremony began, and soon I heard the priest come to the point in the wedding, where he had to ask, “Is there any reason why these two people should not be married?” For someone to stand up and say there was would be unexpected, but that was not to happen, not at this wedding.
8. Of course, we shouldn't have expected anything, but Mary and I would have felt rich with only a thousand pounds each, and we would still have been able to help so many more poor people!
9. Alice, you need not think you can succeed in getting out of the room like this. To do that is utterly rude.
10. Unfortunately, we can imagine how different our lives might have been. But that's useless to cry over spilt milk. What is already in the past is impossible to change. So why not get over it and live on? That could be the best thing to do.
11. She must be landing in Miami now. To go there has always been her cherished dream. Why not be happy for her to have it finally come true?
12. You are old enough and ought to know how to behave in public places. If I were you I would be ashamed of myself for having to be put off the bus for disturbance of public order. For you of all people to do it!
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13. To have survived the hurricane and to have to listen to his lecture on how to behave in emergency situations was too much for her. She couldn't stand that any longer. All she needed then was to be left alone and rest.
Infinitive as Part of Compound Verbal Aspect Predicate
1. I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness (James Thurber).
2. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain (Mark Twain).
3. I never guess. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
4. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away (Philip K. Dick).
5. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do (Eleanor Roosevelt).
6. Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them (Leo Tolstoy).
7. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think (Terry Pratchett).
8. Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening (Dorothy Sarnoff).
9. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph (Shirley Temple).
10. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office (Robert Frost).
11. You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing (Michael Pritchard).
12. Youknowyou're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there (George Burns).
13. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it (William Feather).
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14. To get what you want, stop doing what isn't working (Dennis Weaver).
15. Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not." (George Bernard Shaw).
16. More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat (Mark Twain).
17. When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is (Oscar Wilde).
18. My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, my grandmother, who repeated it to her daughter, my mother, who used to remind her daughter, my own sister, that to talk well and eloquently was a very great art, but that an equally great one was to know the right moment to stop (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
19. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment (James Allen).
20. The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round (Arnold Bennett).
21. It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there (Peter Nivio Zarlenga).
Infinitive as Object
1. I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill (Samuel Butler).
2. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity (Albert Einstein).
3. I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. (Lord Byron).
4. In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and three dimensions, the plane and space, or to poke fun at gravity. Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase? Can you be definite that it is impossible to eat your cake and have it? (Maurits Cornelis Escher)
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5. The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility (John Keats).
6. If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.
7. "When you engage in systematic, purposeful action, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident about yourself." (Brian Tracy)
8. Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps (Gita Bellin).
9. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing (Stanley Judd).
10. Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still (Chinese Proverb).
11. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave (Martin Luther).
12. I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness (Henry David Thoreau).
13. Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound (James Allen).
14. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless (Mother Teresa).
15. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught (Winston Churchill).
16. There is no such thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right (Woodrow Wilson).
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17. Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in and so easy to build as well (Henrik Ibsen).
18. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal (Marilyn Ferguson).
19. Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts (André Breton).
20. People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus (Marcel Proust).
21. A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity (Jimmy Carter).
22. I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter (Walt Disney).
Arakin, Unit 1 + Grammar
1. To put up at this picturesque place in early June would be a rare treat. They say there is no accounting for tastes (tastes differ), but this is, no doubt, a place anyone will find to their taste. There are plenty of woods to roam through and a few lovely lakes swim in on a warm sunny day. The more you spend there, the more you get convinced that the place is more like a fairy-tail magical garden than a mere recreation centre. Why not spend the rest of our holiday there? It will be a splendid opportunity to relax from the noisy city and breathe some fresh air. It may raise your spirits, after all.
2. She was hard to resist when she started cracking jokes. I used to be fascinated at how she always knew what to say and how to raise your spirits. When something didn’t work the way she wanted it to, she would try to experiment till it come up to her taste. This habit of hers would often get her into a mess, but once in a mess, she could tastefully wind anyone round her little finger and in the end you should never have thought that she was the one responsible for the mess in question. It’s really a pity that now, so many years later, she has to scrape her living by peeling potatoes and scraping burned grease off the pots and pans at a McDonald’s.
3. The handle wasn’t easy to wind. It must have been out of use for 10 years or so. The gossip circulated that the former owners moved after losing a steady income and with the money they had been scraping up/together for their whole life they bought a small country cottage in the north of the country to get settled in.
4. “The problem is to persuade Susan to agree,” I said watching her empty another helping of sauce into the stew to thicken it and stirring it up with an earnest and thoughtful air. Then she stopped to take all the odds and ends left from her cooking and throw them into the waste bucket. After a while she promised to try talking to her. To be on the safe side, however, she asked me to make my contribution by buying a tasteful piece of jewelry to please Susan.
Infinitive as Attribute
1. When a man is lost it is my duty to ascertain his fate, but having done so the matter ends so far as I am concerned, and so long as there is nothing criminal I am much more anxious to hush up private scandals than to give them publicity.
2. Manson swears the ship is haunted, and that he would not stay in her a day if he had any other place to go to.
3. With his disinterested passion for art, he had a real desire to call the attention of the wise to a talent which was in the highest degree original; but he was too good a journalist to be unaware that the "human interest" would enable him more easily to effect his purpose.
4. Then it was a distinction to be under forty, but now to be more than twenty-five is absurd.
5. I had nothing to say and so sat silent, trying politely to show interest in the conversation; and because I thought no one was in the least concerned with me, examined Strickland at my ease.
6. Do you mean to say you've had nothing to eat or drink for two days? It's horrible.
7. If I were writing a novel, rather than narrating such facts as I know of a curious personality, I should have invented much to account for this change of heart
8. Mrs. Macandrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
9. I've always thought it would be jolly to have someone to talk to when one was tired of work.
10. Some day those pictures will be worth more than all you have in your shop. Remember Monet, who could not get anyone to buy his pictures for a hundred francs. What are they worth now?
11. Oh, my dear, remember what we've just heard. He's been used to comfort and to having someone to look after him. How long do you think it'll be before he gets tired of a scrubby room in a scrubby hotel? Besides, he hasn't got any money. He must come back."
12. "That's what I always say," reflected Captain Nichols, "when you hurt a man, hurt him bad. It gives you a bit of time to look about and think what to do next."
13. "You're looking at my pictures," she said, following my eyes. "Of course, the originals are out of my reach, but it's a comfort to have these.
14. The passion that held Strickland was a passion to create beauty. It gave him no peace. There are men whose desire to find the truth is so great that to attain it they will shatter the very foundation of their world.
15. It was my intention to have stopped there, and to have said nothing of that event which has created a void in my life which the lapse of two years has done little to fill.
16. I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
17. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed – the word is passed to the professor, the matter is organized and carried out.
18. Things had indeed been very slow with us, and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that my companion's brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work. Therefore I blessed this Mr. Overton, whoever he might be, since he had come with his enigmatic message to break that dangerous calm which brought more peril to my friend than all the storms of his tempestuous life.
19. But I daresay it may have come to your notice that, if you walk into a postoffice and demand to see the counterfoil of another man's message, there may be some disinclination on the part of the officials to oblige you.
20. “Very good, sir,” said Sherlock Holmes. May I ask, in the meanwhile, whether you have yourself any theory to account for this young man's disappearance?” “No, sir, I have not. He is big enough and old enough to look after himself, and if he is so foolish as to lose himself, I entirely refuse to accept the responsibility of hunting for him.”
21. There is one explanation that this young man really is the heir of a great property, however modest his means may at present be, and it is not impossible that a plot to hold him for ransom might be concocted.
22. Of course, I had at the outset no particular reason to connect these journeys with the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton, and was only inclined to investigate them on the general grounds that everything which concerns Dr. Armstrong is at present of interest to us, but, now that I find he keeps so keen a look-out upon anyone who may follow him on these excursions, the affair appears more important, and I shall not be satisfied until I have made the matter clear.
23. He knows where the young man is, and if he knows, then it must be our own fault if we cannot manage to know also. It is not my habit to leave the game in that condition.
24. No doubt you will find some sights to amuse you in this city, and I hope to bring back a more favourable report to you before evening.
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