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不定式作主语
【观察例句】
1.To say is one thing and to do is another.
2.It's rude to turn your back to your teacher and refuse to answer.
3.It is impossible to learn a foreign language without making painstaking effort.
4.It seemed a pity to have wasted so much time.
【归纳用法】
1.把不定式置于句首。如:
To get there by bike will take us half an hour.
骑自行车到那儿将花费我们半个小时。
To make a plan first is a good idea.
首先制定好计划是个好主意。
2.用it作形式主语,把真正的主语不定式置于句后,常用于下列句式中。如:
(1)It+be+名词+to do
It's our duty to take good care of the old.
照顾好老人是我们的责任。
(2)It takes sb.+some time+to do
How long did it take you to finish the work?
你花了多少时间来完成这项工作?
(3)It+be+形容词+for sb.+to do
It is difficult for us to finish writing the composition in a quarter of an hour.
我们难以在15分钟内完成这篇作文。
(4)It seems(appears)+形容词+to do
It seemed impossible to save money.
省钱似乎不可能。
(5)It + 不定式结构可位于believe/consider/discover/expect/
find/think和wonder之后
He thought it would be safer to go by train.
他认为乘火车比较安全。
(6)不定式的完成式也可作句子的主语
To have made the same mistake twice was unforgiva