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Could anyone please explain to me - when to use "???? ???? +????????+??????" ?????? "???? ????" in a sentence?Example = 1. ????'?? ?????? ????o ???????? ?????? ?????????????? ???? ???? ???????????? ?????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???? ??????????.2. ?????? ???????????????? ????????'?? ???????? ???????? ???? ???? ??????????.If I write the first sentence like this "????'?? ?????? ????o ???????? ?????? ?????????????? ???????????? ?????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???? ??????????" and the 2nd sentence like this "?????? ???????????????? ????????'?? ???????? ????????  ??????????". What would be the problem in this sentences?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

English has different forms of the infinitive. An infinitive is a verb, but it does not have tense.

The base form is to + verb. It is quite commonly used.

I like to eat cake.
He is too young to vote.
He was too drunk to drive.

The progressive form is to be verb+ing. The action has a continuous nature and is happening at the same time as the verb in in the main clause

After a car crash: You were too drunk to be driving. You should have let me drive.

Hasibrahman1. ????'?? ?????? ????o ???????? ?????? ?????????????? ???? ???? ???????????? ?????????? ???? ???????? ???????? ???? ??????????

It's too late to make noise. (This suggests one loud noise, like slamming a door.)
It's too late to be making noise. (This means a party with people singing and laughing and yelling for an hour or more.)

Your second sentence is not grammatical.

X It's way too late for someone making noise at that time of night.

You can use a gerund form.

Making noise at that time of night will bother all the neighbors. (subject)

John's mother punished him for making noise at that time of night. (object of preposition)

Hasibrahman"?????? ???????????????? ????????'?? ???????? ???????? ??????????".

That is not grammatical English.

CalifJim · Answer

HasibrahmanCould anyone please explain to me when to use "???? ???? +????????+??????" ?????? "???? ????" in a sentence?

It would be more useful for you if we explained a few grammar patterns that have infinitives. These are not limited to the verb be.

The basic pattern is FOR ______ TO ______.

After for you have a subject. After to you have a verb. This pattern is analogous to a subject and verb of a normal sentence.

Examples:

Normal sentence ................. Infinitive pattern

a) Dan succeeded. .......... for Dan to succeed
b) The manager made good on his promise.
..........................for the manager to make good on his promise
c) The bird escaped. ...... for the bird to escape

So the question is when to use these infinitive patterns in longer sentences.

These patterns always depend on what comes before them. There is no list that you can memorize. You learn these by practicing with a few and then you learn new ones as you read and listen to more and more English.

Some typical patterns that are used to introduce infinitive patterns are

It's easy / It's hard / It's time / It's too late / It's too early

but there are many others.

Here are the examples from above used in full sentences:

a) It would be difficult for Dan to succeed.
b) It's now time for the manager to make good on his promise.
c) The children left the window open for the bird to escape.

Here's how your first example works.

Normal sentence: Someone is making noise at that time of night.
Infinitive pattern: for someone to be making noise at that time of night
Note that 'to be' comes from 'is'.
Infinitive pattern used after a variant of "It's too late":

It's way too late for someone to be making noise at that time of night.

This is a lot to learn from just one post, so I will add just this short note about the second example.

Sometimes the FOR is omitted. You have to learn each example separately.

Normal: That is funny.
Infinitive: for that to be funny
In the example sentence, 'for' is omitted:
You probably didn't mean ~~for~~ that to be funny.

CJ

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