{"id":73964,"date":"2020-04-13T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73964"},"modified":"2024-06-08T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T17:12:34","slug":"infinitive-with-its-own-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/infinitive-with-its-own-subject\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinitive With Its Own Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A structure with <strong>for + object + infinitive<\/strong> is common after many adjectives, verbs and nouns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I was happy <strong>for him to get<\/strong> the job.<\/li><li>My idea was <strong>for him to start<\/strong> a business.<\/li><li>It is important <strong>for us to be informed.<\/strong><\/li><li>I will be happy <strong>for her to join<\/strong> us.<\/li><li>We are waiting <strong>for them to arrive.<\/strong><\/li><li>It is important <strong>for the party to be<\/strong> a success.<\/li><li>My idea was <strong>for him to become <\/strong>a doctor.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that when <strong>for<\/strong> is followed by a pronoun, it should be in its object form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I am anxious <strong>for them to reach <\/strong>safely. (NOT I am anxious for they to reach safely)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In most cases it is possible to express the same idea with <strong>a that-clause.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I was happy t<strong>hat he got the job.<\/strong><\/li><li>My idea was <strong>that he should start a business.<\/strong><\/li><li>It is important <strong>that we should be informed.<\/strong><\/li><li>It is important <strong>that the party should be a success. <\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A structure with for + object + infinitive is common after many adjectives, verbs and nouns. I was happy for him to get the job. My idea was for him to start a business.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":[2265,2264],"class_list":["post-73964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-that-clause","tag-that-clauses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73964","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=73964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77732,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73964\/revisions\/77732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}