{"id":73960,"date":"2020-04-13T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73960"},"modified":"2024-05-22T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T09:45:29","slug":"perfect-infinitive-passive-infinitive-progressive-infinitive-different-forms-of-infinitives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/perfect-infinitive-passive-infinitive-progressive-infinitive-different-forms-of-infinitives\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Infinitive, Passive Infinitive, Progressive Infinitive | Different Forms Of Infinitives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Besides simple infinitives like (to) write, there are also\u00a0progressive, perfect\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0passive infinitives<\/b>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underline the infinitive in the following sentences and say whether it is a simple infinitive, progressive infinitive, perfect infinitive or passive infinitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. She must be sleeping now.<\/li>
  2. He is happy to have found a good job.<\/li>
  3. It is good to have won.<\/li>
  4. You seem to have angered here.<\/li>
  5. You could have informed me earlier.<\/li>
  6. He should have obeyed his parents.<\/li>
  7. She ought to be informed.<\/li>
  8. They should be invited.<\/li>
  9. He must be fired.<\/li>
  10. They might be waiting for us. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. be sleeping (progressive infinitive)<\/li>
    2. to have found (perfect infinitive)<\/li>
    3. to have won (perfect infinitive)<\/li>
    4. to have angered (perfect infinitive)<\/li>
    5. have informed (perfect infinitive)<\/li>
    6. have obeyed (perfect infinitive)<\/li>
    7. be informed (passive infinitive)<\/li>
    8. be invited (passive infinitive)<\/li>
    9. be fired (passive infinitive)<\/li>
    10. be waiting (progressive infinitive)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      You can learn about the different forms of infinitives here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Besides simple infinitives like (to) write, there are also\u00a0progressive, perfect\u00a0and\u00a0passive infinitives. Underline the infinitive in the following sentences and say whether it is a simple infinitive, progressive infinitive, perfect infinitive or passive infinitive. She...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[853,2632,891,2631],"class_list":["post-73960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-infinitives","tag-passive-infinitive","tag-perfect-infinitive","tag-progressive-infinitive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77586,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73960\/revisions\/77586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}