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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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What does thiis construction mean: expects TO BE manufacturing (V+to+be+-ing)?
  

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Anonymous expects TO BE manufacturing It doesn't make sense; how can one expect to be manufacturing oneself? Some self-conscious and self-manufacturing robots may do that in the distant future, though.

  • Anonymous expects TO BE manufacturing It doesn't make sense; how can one expect to be manufacturing oneself?
  • Some self-conscious and self-manufacturing robots may do that in the distant future, though.
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Anonymousexpects TO BE manufacturing
It doesn't make sense; how can one expect to be manufacturing oneself? Some self-conscious and self-manufacturing robots may do that in the distant future, though.
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eg.
They expect to be manufacturing Smart Phones next year.

"To be manufacturing" is the continuous infinitive.

There are several forms of the infinitive:
to manufacture - infinitive
to be manufacturing - continuous
to be manufactured - passive
to have manufactured - perfect
to have been manufactured - perfect, passive

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