Task 2. Analyze the grammatical structure of the sentences to

The Infinitive in both functions can be used at the beginning 

of sentences.

1. To fulfil its commitments to the people a trade union needs the 

support of a strong and influential party.

2. In order to maintain price there is generally a system of output 

quotas allotted to each firm.

3. To achieve any serious improvement in their economic conditions, 

the American working people must fight to realize their goals.

4. It is obvious that «to slow down» inflation and to cut taxes was the 

first aim of the policy.

5. To solve the problems these countries issued paper money.

6. To maintain itself as a social system it was obliged to create an 

intricate mechanism of state intervention in economic system.

7. To combine the advantages of both systems and avoid the draw-

backs of both systems was the aim of the International Monetary 

Fund.

8. To increase exploitation of British workers it is necessary to 

9. To assist developing countries in meeting their own needs the 

Peace Corps sends volunteer Americans overseas.

10. To affect these factors, legislation was enacted creating the Small 

Business Administration, an independent federal agency.

11. To consider policy related to operational decisions and to review 

accomplishments the board meets monthly or quarterly.

12. In order to legalize the collection of revenues and expenditure of 

funds the federal budget must be enacted into law.

13. To participate in this programme, farmers must again take some 

of their lands out of production.

14. To find its own way of economic development was then of prime 

importance for the country.

In Modern English there are the following predicative constructions 

with the Infinitive:

1) the Objective-with-the-Infinitive construction;

2) the Subjective Infinitive Construction;

3) the for-to-Infinitive Construction.