It is not the way to argue down a vice to tell lies about it.
9. It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope.
10. It is not all of life to live.
11. This task, to teach the young, may become delightful.
The +infinitive phrase+ may be used as +objective complement.+
12. He made me wait.
+Explanation+.--The infinitive _wait_ (here used without _to_) completes
_made_ and relates to _me_. _He made-wait me = He detained me_.
See "Introductory Hints," Lesson 31, and participles used as objective
complements, Lesson 37. Compare _I saw him do it_ with _I saw him doing
it_. Compare also _He made the stick bend_--equaling _He made-bend _(=
bent) _the stick_--with _He made the stick straight_--equaling _He
made-straight _(= straightened) _the stick_.
The relation of these objective complements to _me, him_, and _stick_ may
be more clearly seen by changing the form of the verb, thus: I was made _to
wait_; He was seen _to do it_, He was seen _doing it_; The stick was made
_to bend_; The stick was made _straight_.
13.We found the report to be true. [Footnote: Some prefer to treat _the
report to be true_ as an object clause because it is equivalent to the
clause _that the report is true_. But many expressions logically
equivalent are entirely different in grammatical construction; as, I
desire _his promotion_; I desire _him to be promoted_; I desire _that he
should be promoted_.
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