TO INFINITIVE
verbs | 1. Certain verbs: agree, appear, afford, want, decide, expect, hope, plan, promise, refuse. |
2. Specific preference: would like, would love, would prefer. | |
3. Ask, learn, etc. + question words except why: explain, decide, find out, want, etc. | |
adjectives | 1. Feelings: happy, sad, glad, etc. |
2. Willingness: willing, eager, reluctant. | |
3. Character: it was kind / clever of him to ... | |
4. Fortunate / lucky: He was lucky to ... | |
5. Too/ enough: It's too difficult to explain. | |
6. It + be + adj.: It is important/ easy to. | |
7. Be the first, second, next, last: She is always the last one to arrive at meetings. | |
sentences | 1. Purpose: He works to get paid, not because he enjoys it. |
2. Unexpected event (with only): He spent ages negotiating for a pay increase, only to resign from his job soon after he'd received it. | |
3. Expressions (to tell you the truth, to be honest): To be quite truthful with you, I never really liked the man. | |
Pronouns, nouns | 1. After something, anything, etc.: There is nothing much to do in that town. |
2. It + be + noun: It was her ambition to become a model. |
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