(Infinitive of purpose)
| What a nice box to keep things in. | I've come to visit your sister. | I've got a letter to write |
2. (1) ( a box for keeping things in); (3) : time, energy, money + to do sth (e. g. I have no time to answer letters.).
Infinitive and gerundive structures compared Verbal structures
| 1)ger. | appreciate, avoid, consider, enjoy, finish, mind, miss, practise, recall, report, risk, suggest | doing sth |
| 2) inf. | agree, decide, fail, forget, hope, learn, need, offer, plan, prepare, refuse, seem, try, want | to do sth |
| 3)inf. /gcr. | a) with no change of meaning: begin, can't stand, continue, hate, like, love, prefer, start | to do sth / doing sth |
| b) with a change of meaning: attempt, forget, regret, remember, stop, try |
3. 3), like to swim like swimming; 3) : stop to stydy stop studying: 1) 2) , , afraid of meeting you, pleased to meet you.
Adjective structures
| 1) ger. | accustomed to, afraid of, capable of, fond of, interested in, successful in, tired of | doing sth |
| 2)inf. | boring, hard, dangerous, eager, difficult, easy, common, good, strange, able, usual, etc. | to do sth |
The Gerund and the Participle
| the -ing forms | participles and their Russian equivalents | |||
| Ger./P.I | Simple | Perfect | Simple | Perfect |
| Active | meeting | having met | / | |
| Passive | being met | having been met | : / |
1. -ing (I sat there waiting for him), (I'm interested in collecting those data), (The meeting was borin g). -ed (I can't go there uninvited), Past Simple (/ invited him over) ( was tired). ( ), ( ) (who met / has met /had met). , : Look, he is being greeted by the president. He is flattered by being greeted by the president. (. .)
