i) To procrastinate causes a lot of problems.

       ii)  Not to go ahead (negative infinitive) proved a mistake.

 

b.    An example when infinitives act as object. 

          i) Not everyone wants to procrastinate.

 

c.    An example when infinitives act as subject complement.

            i) His job is to motivate people.

            ii) It’s advisable to finish what you started. (It + an infinitive phrase is more common)

d) An example of past infinitive
        i) You seem to have forgotten the report that was due today. (to +have + past particle)

e) An example of active and passive form of infinitive.
        i) She was glad to have invited them. (active form)
        ii) They were happy to have been invited. (passive form)

 To avoid repeating an infinitive, just replace the verb with to. (This is called ellipsis)
   - For example, Steve knew he had to go to work, but he didn’t want to.

A. to be trained

B. to train

C. train

D. to have trained 

 

2. The workers accepted the cut in salary without complaint because they were afraid _______ their jobs. 

A. to have lost

B. to lose

C. lose

D. to be lost

 

3. Pragmatists were hardly the first men ________ beliefs control behavior.

A. insisted

B. who insists

C. to insist

D. Insist

 

4. ________ , my tennis went daily from bad to worse, and the worse it become, the more I loved it. 

A. To honest be

B. To be quite honest

C. If I be honest

D. Being honest

 

5. After studying hard to become an accountant, he discovered that it was not what he wanted _______ . 

A. to do

B. doing

C. that

D. to

 

6. The tennis champion has been asked _________ an exhibition game at the tennis club next Sunday. 

A. to play

B. play

C. to have played

D. to be played

 

7. She ordered the room ________ before breakfast. 

A. to be swept

B. sweep

C. to sweep

D. sweeping

 

8. When a molar started to ache, I decided it was time _________ a dentist. 

A. to see

B. to have seen

C. seeing

D. see

 

9. I muttered encouraging words to myself ________ up my courage. 

A. keeping 

B. to have kept

C. to keep

D. being kept

 

10. On my way home I stopped _______some bread at the bakery. 

A. buying

B. to have bought

C. to buy

D. to buying

Refer to page 292-293. We provided the answer here

2. warned not to put off

3. wanted to make

4. will be important experience

5. forced me to study

6. was fortunate to graduate