What types of infinitives are these?
1. Do you want to live to be a hundred?
1. I know him to be an honest man.
3. I assumed him to be a thief.
What types of infinitive are these? As we know that these are not the infinitive of purpose. Are these the infinitive of result? Could you help me understand the matter well?
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No, infinitival clauses do not occur in result adjuncts, and as you rightly say it is not a purpose adjunct (cf. Open the wine to let it breathe ). 1.
- No, infinitival clauses do not occur in result adjuncts, and as you rightly say it is not a purpose adjunct (cf.
- Open the wine to let it breathe ).
- 1.
- Do you want to live to be a hundred ?
- 2.
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No, infinitival clauses do not occur in result adjuncts, and as you rightly say it is not a purpose adjunct (cf. Open the wine to let it breathe).
1. Do you want to live to be a hundred?
2. I know him to be an honest man.
3. I assumed him to be a thief.
In fact, the underlined infinitival clauses are not adjuncts a
0roky00711. I know him to be an honest man.
'honest' starts with a vowel sound.
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