Exercise 12. State the form and function of the infinitives. Translate the sentences into Russian. The first has been done for you

1. There were many suggestions to simplify English by changing the

spelling system.

2. The Russian learners of English, especially those who plan to go to the USA to study or pursue a specific career goal, must be warned against possible misunderstandings due to differences in Britain and American English.

3. I’m sorry to have taken so much of your time.

4. Love is said to be blind.

5. To go on with this business is to waste time.

6. The company uses computers to do its accounts.

7. This is an order to the bank to pay money to someone from his account.

8. It is impossible for this cheque to be paid into any bank account other than that of the named payee.

9. The developing and relatively poor countries are said to make up the Third World.

10. Here are the articles to be translated by Monday.

11 The most effective way for a central bank to control the economy is to increase or decrease bank lending and bank deposits.

12. Debtor countries borrowed even more money to pay for the increased cost of oil and debt payments.

13. I will have finished my work by 7 o’clock.

14. They expected the delegation to arrive the next day.

15. The company was reported to have made big losses the previous year.

16. Several Swiss banks were found to be facilitating the activities international drug traffickers in the 1980s.

17. When a bank is required to keep a certain amount of its funds on reserve with the central bank, it is unable to lend these funds back to customers.

18. To encourage research work, the degree of Bachelor of Science was set up in Oxford in 1895.

19. She was required to be interviewed.

20.Changes to the taxation system are expected to be proposed.

Grammar in context

Gerund or infinitive?