Exercise 41 (§§ 324–328, Pp. 137–139)
1. Point out each infinitive clause. Mention the verb of which it is the object. Find the subject of each infinitive. When it is possible, substitute a that-clause for the infinitive clause.
1. It might seem irreverent to make the gray cathedral and the tall time-worn palaces echo back the exuberant vociferation of the market. 2. We have made you wait. 3. We then went to Pembroke College, and waited on his old friend Dr. Adams, the master of it, whom I found to be a most polite, pleasing, communicative man.—Boswell. 4. The doctor expects Captain Starbuck to recover. 5. For a good sailor to foul the first buoy was ludicrous enough. 6. Will you ask Annie to feed the parrot? 7. I believe it to be a speaking likeness. 8. I suppose them to be utterly ignorant of their own condition.
9. Hepzibah bade her young guest sit down. 10. Calamity and peril often force men to combine. 11. He knew himself to be a liar whom nobody trusted. 12. I must not ask the reader to suppose that he was cheerful. 13. I felt this melancholy to be infectious. 14. No one on seeing Mr. Crawley took him to be a happy man, or a weak man, or an ignorant man, or a wise man.—Trollope. 15. Humanity impelled him to rescue the poor wretch.
2. Write sentences containing infinitive clauses used after verbs of wishing, commanding, believing, declaring, perceiving.
3. Fill each blank with a personal pronoun.
1. He believes the author to be ——. [First person.]
2. He believes that the author is ——. [First person.]
3. I knew the thief to be ——. [Third person.]
4. I thought that the thief was ——. [Third person.]
5. We thought the strangers to be ——. [Third person.]
6. We thought that the strangers were ——. [Third person.]
4. Fill each blank with who or whom.
1. The man —— I believe to be responsible for this accident is the engineer.
2. I believe that the man —— is responsible for this accident is the engineer.
3. My knock was answered by a lad —— I believed to be a lodger.
4. You are not the person —— I believed you to be.