动词不定式的简介
动词不定式是一种非限定性动词,由to+动词原形构成,但在有些情况下to可以省略.它还是属于动词,本身可以带宾语和状语.动词不定式在句中可以作主语、宾语、表语、定语和状语,还可用在复合结构中,而且有完成式、进行式、完成进行式和否定形式.动词不定式的被动形式除了一般形式外还有其完成式和进行式.
动词不定式的时态、语态
动词不定式可以作以上各种成分,但它毕竟是动词,所以有动词的属性
动词不定式及其短语还可以有自己的宾语、状语,虽然动词不定式在语法上没有表面上的直接主语,但它表达的意义是动作,这一动作一定由使动者发出.这一使动者我们称之为 逻辑主语,其形式如下:
主动形式 被动形式
一般式 (not) to make (not) to be made
完成式 (not) to have made (not) to have been made
进行式 (not) to be making
完成进行式 (not) to have been making
(1)语态
如果动词不定式的逻辑主语是这个不定式所表示的动作的承受者,不定式一般要用被动语态形式.如:
It's a great honour to be invited to Mary's birthday party.(不定式作主语)
It was impossible for lost time to be made up.(不定式作主语)
I wish to be sent to work in the country.(不定式作宾语)
Can you tell me which is the car to be repaired?(不定式作定语)
He went to the hospital to be examined.(不定式作状语)
在There be结构中,修饰主语的不定式可用被动,也可用主动.如:There are still many things to t ake care of (to be taken care of).但有时两种形式表达的意思不同,如:These is nothing to do now.( We have nothing to do now.) There is nothing to be done now.(We can do nothing now.)
(2)时态
1) 现在时:一般现在时表示的动词,有时与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生,有时发生在谓语动词的动作之后.
He seems to know this.
I hope to see you again.= I hope that I'll see you again.我希望再见到你.
2) 完成时:表示的动作发生在谓语动词表示的动作之前.
I'm sorry to have given you so much trouble.
He seems to have caught a cold.
3) 进行时:表示动作正在进行,与谓语动词表示的动作同时发生.
He seems to be eating something.
4) 完成进行时:
She is known to have been wreaking on the problem for many years.