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Objective Infinitive Construction
(Complex Object)
Exercise 1. A. Identify Infinitive Construction and give the Russian translation.
1. One can assume this to be self-evident. 2. One can expect the scope of research to
expand steadily. 3. Most people believe the amount of effort in science to be
somehow correlated with the standard of living in the country. 4. Nowadays we see
many new areas of research come into being as a result of unexpected break-
throughs. 5. One can watch more and more people move into biology from other
areas of research. 6. The present-day situation forces more and more countries to start
contributing to this field of research. 7. An efficient laboratory head always knows
how to get his people to do their work properly and on time. 8. If one is really
interested in science, one does not like any problem, however difficult, to be left
unsolved. 9. One will naturally think such course of events to be disastrous not only
for science but for the future of mankind.
Exercise 2. Learn to distinguish between indefinite and perfect infinitives.
Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. The history of the last 30 years shows him to have done very well. 2. We know
him to have established a school of his own. 3. We do not expect him to throw away
an opportunity like this. 4. We know him to have objected to this style of research on
previous occasions. 5. They considered all water or the surface of this planet to have
been liberated by volcanic action.
Exercise 3. Translate the following sentences paying attention to Objective
Infinitive Construction.
1. Experiments have proved the pressure of a gas at fixed temperature to depend on
its concentration. 2. We have thought this law to hold only for gases which are under
normal conditions. 3. One may safely expect this prediction to be quite reliable. 4. On
assuming the body with the mass m to be acted upon by force f, let us calculate the
acceleration. 5. They found radon to be 3 times as heavy as hydrogen. 6. Let us take
the volume of this body to equal v. 7. We consider this work to be the most serious
attempt made to interpret experimental results in terms of «band tail» theory.

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