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verbs of sense perception: to feel, to hear, to see, to watch.
Soon he was heard to open the front door.
She was often seen to walk all alone.
Вскоре услышали, как он открыл парадную дверь.
Часто видели, как она гуляет совсем одна.
d) the verb to make.
He was made to keep silent.
Его заставили молчать.
3. The first part is expressed by the phrases: to be likely, to be unlikely, to be sure, to be certain. In this case
only the non-perfect forms of the infinitive are used, with future reference.
She is likely to be late.
He is sure to become your friend.
They are sure to be wanted as evidence.
In all these three subtypes the “to” - infinitive is always used.
The infinitive as object
§ 107. The infinitive can have the function of object after verbs, adjectives, adjectivized participles and
statives.
After verbs the infinitive may be either the only object of a verb or one of two objects.
1. Verbs that take only one object are: to agree, to arrange, to attempt, to care (to like), to choose, to claim,
to consent, to decide, to deserve, to determine, to expect, to fail, to fear, to forget, to hesitate, to hope, to intend,
to learn, to like, to long, to love, to manage, to mean, to neglect, to omit, to plan, to prefer, to pretend, to refuse,
to regret, to remember, to swear, to tend, etc.
She agreed to come at ten.
He planned to spend the day in town.
You’ll soon learn to read, sonny.
Among these verbs two groups can be distinguished:
a) the verbs to claim, to fail, to forget, to hate, to like, to omit, to regret, to remember, to swear, with which
the perfect infinitive denotes actions prior to those of the finite verbs. It can be accounted for by the fact that
semantically these verbs denote an action or state following or resulting from that of the infinitive (you can
regret only what was or has been done).
I regret to have said it to her.
I remembered to have met him once.
She claims to have seen him before.
b) The verbs to attempt, to expect, to hope, to intend, to mean, to plan, to try, when followed by the perfect
infinitive imply that the action of the infinitive was not fulfilled.
I hoped to have found him at home.
He intended to have reached the coast long before.
In this case the finite verb can be used only in the past tense.
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