English_for_Finance_and_Banking

THE INFINITIVE

Infinitive	Active voice	Passive voice	Uses
Indefinite	to write to come	to be written —
He wants to write her about it. He wants to be written about it.
Continuous	to be writing to be coming	— —
He may be writing a new novel
Perfect	to have written to have come	to have been written —
I am glad to have written her about it. I was surprised to have been written about it.
Perfect Continuous	to have been writing to have been coming	— —
He is said to have been writing this novel for 2 years already.

Functions	Examples
Subject	To know him is to trust him. It is difficult to translate this text.
Predicative	Our aim is to master English. What I want is to be left alone.
Part of a Compound Verbal Predicate	We must stay at home. We decided to work together.
Object	He asked me to wait. He promised to come in time.
Attribute	He is always the first to come. The article to be translated is on the table.
Adverbial Modifier	I have come here to help you. The problem is too complicated to be solved at once.

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