The infinitive of result
1. Do you want to live to be a hundred?
2. She arrived home to receive a letter from her bank.
3. I went back to the shop only to find that it had closed for good.
4. He got his car fixed only to damage it again.
My question is as follows:
Why are these infinitives called "the infinitive of result"?
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roky0071 2. She arrived home to receive a letter from her bank. In my opinion, it may be read as an infinitive-of-purpose usage.
- roky0071 2.
- She arrived home to receive a letter from her bank.
- In my opinion, it may be read as an infinitive-of-purpose usage.
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roky00712. She arrived home to receive a letter from her bank.
In my opinion, it may be read as an infinitive-of-purpose usage.
0They are not called that. Result adjuncts are expressed either by a PP with so as head and a content clause as complement, or by a PP with with as head and an NP complement:
He was frail, so that operating on him was judged to be unsafe.
He dropped it, with the result that it stopped working.
The infinitivals in your examples are eit
0roky0071Why are these infinitives called "the infinitive of result"?
Because they tell us what the result of the action is, that is, what happened next.
Example: I went back to the shop only to find that it had closed for good
Action: I went back to the shop.
Result: I found out that it had closed.
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