10. To be, or not to be,--that is the question.
11. I supposed him to be a gentleman.
12. Food, keeping the body in health by making it warm and repairing its
waste, is a necessity.
13. I will teach you the trick to prevent your being cheated another time.
14. She threatened to go beyond the sea, to throw herself out of the
window, to drown herself.
15. Busied with public affairs, the council would sit for hours smoking and
watching the smoke curl from their pipes to the ceiling.
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LESSON 43.
COMPOSITION--THE INFINITIVE.
+Direction+.--_Change the infinitives in these sentences into participles,
and the participles into infinitives_:--
Notice that _to_, the only preposition used with the infinitive, is changed
to _toward, for, of, at, in,_ or _on_, when the infinitive is changed to a
participle.
1. I am inclined to believe it.
2. I am ashamed to be seen there.
3. She will be grieved to hear it.
4. They trembled to hear such words.
5. It will serve for amusing the children.
6. There is a time to laugh.
7. I rejoice to hear it.
8. You are prompt to obey.
9. They delight to do it.
10. I am surprised at seeing you.
11. Stones are used in ballasting vessels.
+Direction+.
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