动词不定式作宾语且过长时常请it作形式宾语,而让真的的宾语不定式断后。比如:
The man downstairs2 found3 it hard to fall asleep4.
2. 小品词to 的回避与复出
很多动词如teach,ask (要;让),tell,beg 等后常有带to的动词不定式作宾补;但let,have,make (让;使),feel,hear 等后作宾补的不定式结构,to 要回避。但在被动语态里to须重出江湖;help 后作宾补的不定式可加to,也可省略to.比如:
The policeman made5 the young woman move her car.
The young woman was6 made to move her car by the policeman.
[提示] 对不定式进行否定可在其前加not.如:let sb not do sth; tell sb not to do sth. 把直接引语为祈使句的句子变为间接引语,直接引语一般转换成不定式作宾补。比如:
The policeman said7. Dont play football in the street,children!
The policeman asked the children not to play football in the street.
3. 回答缘由,作目的状语
不定式(短语)常跟在come, go, run, hurry 等动词后作目的状语;或以in order8 to +动词原形、so as1 to +动词原形等形式出现,或回答what . . . for? / why . . . ?问句。比如:
-Hi, Peter! Why are you in such9 a hurry?
-To catch the 7:30 train.
[提示] 有时目的状语可置于句首,意为为了,等于in order to.比如:
To catch the bus, you must get up early.
在sTOP后的动词不定式其实是作目的状语,意为停下来做另一件事。比如:
Lets sTOP to have a meal10. I know a good restaurant near here.
4. 作状语,简化相应的复合句
作结果状语的不定式常以enough to . . . ,only to . . . , too . . . to . . . 等形式登场,并能简化成so . . . that . . . 句式。比如:
Liu Mei was so lucky11 that she received13 many books from Project14 Hope15.
Liu Mei was lucky enough to receive12 many books from Project Hope.
5. 作后置定语
作定语时,不定式(短语)常置于被修饰的名词、不定代词等之后。比如:
Now China is the third country to send its astronauts16 into space after Russia17 and the US.
[提示]假如不定式(短语)是不及物动词,其后应有必要的介词/副词。比如:
I found a nice place for him to live in.
6. 不定式be to do sth可表以后
be to do sth 表以后,意为将要做某事。比如:
Our train is to leave at eight.
7. 年代弄潮儿疑问词+不定式
疑问词+不定式结构中的疑问词包含疑问代词which, who (m), what 和疑问副词how, when, where 等,并常简化相应的从句,但当主句与从句的主语不同时,不定式常用被动形式。比如:
The little girl wanted to know when her father could18 take her to Pairs.
The little girl wanted to know when to be taken to Pairs by her father.