CERMIN HATI

To-Infinitive in English

(Source: Astuti, Eka Mulya. English Zone. Bandung:Erlangga.)

Consider the following sentences:

These verb have special characteristics. They must be followed by a to-infinitive or a (pro) noun plus a to-infinitive.

List of verb followed by to-infinitive

List of Verbs followed by a (pro) Noun + to-Infinitive

Examples:

1) I can’t afford to teach you about your job.

2) I’ve asked you to tell your problem.

3) I don’t care you to say it.

4) I demand you to keep cleaning.

5) I am expecting to invite you to my party.

6) luckily I managed you to invite me.

7) I am planning you to ask your duty.

8) I’ll pretend you to teach about Japanese.

9) I’ve promised to join your meeting.

10) I want to invite you to come to my house.

11) I advised him to tell me about your jobs.

12) I’ve asked her to invite my family.

13) I am challenging my brother to ask money to my neighbor.

14) I am expecting you to tell your problem.

15) I will invite them to come to my house.

16) I’ve ordered her to ask some money to my parents.

17) I taught my neighbor to learn English.

18) I told my best frien to beg my parents.

19) I want my parents to give me money.

(SCORE:90, September,28th 2012)

CULTURAL NOTES

In cultures where demons and withces are perceived as real, fairy tales may merge into legends, where the narrative is perceived by both the teller and hearers as being grounded in historical truth. However, unlike legends and epics, they usually do not contain more than superficial references to religion and actual places, people, and events; they take place “once upon a time” rather than in actual times.

Fairy tales are found in oral and literary forms. The history of the fairy tale is particularly difficult to trace, because only the literary forms survive. Still, the evidence of literary works at least indicates that fairy tales have existed for thousand of years. Many of today’s fairy tales have evolved from centuries-old stories that have appeared, with variations, in multiple cultures around the world. Fairy tales, and works derived from fairy tales, are still written today.

The oldest known written fairy tales stem from ancient Egypt, c. 1300 BC (e. g. The Tale of Two Brothers) and fairy tales appear, now and again, in written literature throughout literate cultures, as Cupid and Psyche (Roman, 100-200 AD), or the Panchatantra (India 3^rd century BC). The first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop (6^thcentury BC) in ancient Greece.

Fairy tales with very similar plots, characters, and motifs are found across many different cultures. Two theories of their origins have attempted to explain this phenomenon. One is that a single point of origin generated any given tale, which then spread over the centuries; the other is that such fairy tales stem from common human experience and therefore can appear separately in many different cultures. Little Briar-Rose, for example, appears to stem from Sleeping Beauty. Little Red Riding Hood perhaps derived from The Wolf and The Seven Young Kids.

(Taken from:Wikipedia.org)