Quiz playing is a wonderful way to increase your knowledge of English as a Second Language. Remember that all of our ESL quizzes have titles that are both friendly and technical at the same time… In the case of this quiz you might like to tell your friends about “We Want You To Succeed?” but no doubt your teachers will talk about the “Verb, Object & Infinitive Structure quiz”! If you hear a technical term and you want to find a quiz about the subject then just look through the list of quiz titles until you find what you need.
We want you to succeed in this quiz “verb, object and infinitive structure.”
Whenever, in English, someone talks to another person about doing something, this same structure comes up. Here's your chance to make quite sure you succeed with verb, object and infinitive structure, every time.
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British English prefers to 'go and see ...' (a bit like 'wait and see').
Otherwise the shape of this sentence is much the same as the earlier example/s. |
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Still the same overall shape ... we hope you are getting the idea clearly by now!
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[ Subject + communicative verb + object + infinitive of action ]
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Again, the same order.
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Nobody can 'whisper a person', so they have to 'whisper to them', and that person is therefore an Indirect Object. (The Direct Object, if given, would be the actual words spoken: 'She whispered three words [Direct Object] to him [Indirect Object] ... '.
So in this case, there are two 'to's': ' ... to him, to do ... '. |
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' ... writing [a letter] to you, 'to tell you ... '
English does not need a 'for' (as in Answer 4) to express purpose; the infinitive with 'to' is fully adequate. |
This sentence is still in the same overall shape as all the others.
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It is alternatively possible to say, 'We (do not) expect that they succeed'; but this is a different structure. The one we have been practising does just as good a job, and by now you should be fairly familiar and comfortable with it.
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Let's hope nobody else caught the disease!
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English does not need to say 'asking/inviting TO us'; there's already a 'to' coming up in the infinitive of the verb that we're being invited to do ... and two 'to's' are too many!