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Hans51 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
"Use the opportunity to V"
"Talk to your child about what he or she sees on TV and share your own beliefs and values. If something you don't approve of appears on the screen, you can turn off the TV, and use the opportunity to ask your child some questions such as, "Do you think it was OK when those men got in that fight? What else could they have done?"
"Alongside some 200 key government officials that represent ministries and state administrations, she held a New Year's greeting ceremony on Friday afternoon at the presidential office. She used the opportunity to urge the government to quickly pull up the national income level to 40-thousand U.S. dollars, and once again called for a peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula."
"use the opportunity to ask your child some questions"
"used the opportunity to urge the government"
I know that to infinitive modifies an opportunity like "as an opportunity to V" or I have an opportunity to visit New York. Here to infinitive functions as an adjective, but it seems like "use the opportunity to ask / urge..." in the passages are different, meaning to ask or urge in the passages functions as an adverb for purpose.
I tired to interpret it as an adjective phrase modifying the opportunity, but it sounds weird, but when I see it as an adverbial phrase meaning purpose, it sounds clear. What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much in advance.
"Alongside some 200 key government officials that represent ministries and state administrations, she held a New Year's greeting ceremony on Friday afternoon at the presidential office. She used the opportunity to urge the government to quickly pull up the national income level to 40-thousand U.S. dollars, and once again called for a peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula."
"use the opportunity to ask your child some questions"
"used the opportunity to urge the government"
I know that to infinitive modifies an opportunity like "as an opportunity to V" or I have an opportunity to visit New York. Here to infinitive functions as an adjective, but it seems like "use the opportunity to ask / urge..." in the passages are different, meaning to ask or urge in the passages functions as an adverb for purpose.
I tired to interpret it as an adjective phrase modifying the opportunity, but it sounds weird, but when I see it as an adverbial phrase meaning purpose, it sounds clear. What do you native English speakers think?
Thank you so much in advance.
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Hans51 What do you native English speakers think? Pattern: opportunity (to do something) 1 (to do something) 2 . I see the first as a complement and the second as an infinitive of purpose.
- Hans51 What do you native English speakers think?
- Pattern: opportunity (to do something) 1 (to do something) 2 .
- I see the first as a complement and the second as an infinitive of purpose.
- What I call a complement is perhaps more like a content clause with that as in the fact that the earth is round .
- It specifies what the opportunity is.
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Hans51What do you native English speakers think?Pattern: opportunity (to do something)1 (to do something)2.
I see the first as a complement and the second as an infinitive of purpose. What I call a complement is perhaps more like a content clause with that as in the fact that the earth is round. It specif
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