动词不定式主动式表示被动意义用法种种

摘要

<正> 当不定式结构所修饰的名词或代词是不定式动作的承受者时,这个不定式要用被动式。例如: (1)It was impossible for lost time to be made up. (2)She didn’t like herself to be praised like that。 (3)The only sound to be heard was the soughing of the wind。因为名词’lost time’是’to make up’的承受者(1),’herself’是’topraise’的承受者(2),’sound’是’to hear’的承受者(3),所以这三个不定式动词都用了被动式,但是,这种修饰动作的承受者的不定式结构有时不用