Task 4. State the functions of the infinitive

1. To have seen London does not mean to have seen all of England. 

2. You ought to have warned us in due time! 

3. He was ashamed to speak to her after that. 

4. I was too shy to try to speak to her again. 

5. He’ll probably get a chance to be offered that post.

6. He is not so easy to persuade. 

7. It wasn’t hard to persuade them. 

8. Whether to agree or not is not the main problem. 

9. The question is how to get there. 

10. I didn’t know what to believe. 

11. She was about to say that they had no right to do so, but she 

stopped in time. 

12. He had something to think over. 

13. He stopped to greet a neighbor. 

14. He awoke one morning to find himself famous. 

15. Not a soul was to be seen in the street. 

16. There was not a soul to be seen in the street. 

17. The problem was such as to puzzle anyone. 

18. He hadn’t enough money to buy all that. 

19. The impulse to help him was irresistible. 

20. There is no need to lose your temper. 

21. You needn’t have bought so much bread. 

22. The weather was so bad as to keep us in all day.

1. The Infinitive at the beginning of the sentence can be used either in 

the function of a subject or adverbial modifier of purpose, or parethesis.

It’s required to analyze the syntactic structure of the sentence.

2. After the verb 

to fail

 or the noun