a) complex subject b) attribute c) part of a predicative
Exercise 5. State the functions of the Infinitive and its constructions and translate the sentences into Russian
1. I went to Oxford; and there I began to discover I was not the person I wanted to be. 2. I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope. 3. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended there was nowhere to love. 4. My “technique” was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart. 5. She had a very un-English ability to suddenly flash out some truth, some seriousness, some quick surge of interest. 6. She thought it must be nice to be totally alone in the world, to have no family ties. 7. I had to give up the flat in Russell Square and we spent three frustrating days looking for somewhere for her to live. 8. The next day I moved to the Russell Hotel, so that I had only to stroll out of the entrance and look across the square to see the house, to wait for the windows on that black third floor to light. 9. She stepped back for me to enter. 10. She sat in an armchair and gestured for me to sit on the huge sofa in the center of the room, but I shook my head. 11. She let silence pass again, as if to isolate what I said. 12. Neither I nor my children pretend to be ordinary people. They were not brought up to be ordinary. We are rich and we are intelligent and we mean to live rich, intelligent lives. 13. She seemed to decide to say nothing; then changed her mind. 14. Wait as long as Alison makes you wait. I do not think it will be very long. 15. That is for the two of you to settle. 16. She began to eat her toast, as if to bring us back to normal. I beckoned to the waitress for the bill. 17. Alison is not a present. She has to be paid for. And convinced that you have the money to pay. 18. She took my hand, but kept it and made me lean forward, to my surprise to kiss me on the cheek. 19. I said I was going to have some spaghetti. 20. She had come from Glasgow, it seemed, two months before, to be an art student.
(Источник: J. Fowles, 2012).
Exercise 6. State the functions of the Infinitive and translate the sentences into Russian