INFINITIVE WITH TO

THE TO-INFINITIVE IS USED EXAMPLE

1) to express purpose I work to support my family.

2) after certain verbs and adjectives He promised to be back at 10 o'clock.

3) after question words (where, how, what, Has she told you where to meet them?

who, which, but not after "why") BUT  Why leave so early?

4) after would like/would love/would prefer I'd love to go for a walk.

5) after nouns It's a pleasure to work with you.

6) after too/enough constructions He's too short to reach the top shelf.

7) with it + be + adjective + of + object It was nice of him to remember my birthday.

8) with ‘only' to express unsatisfactory result She called me only to say that she would be late.

V+ INF (TO V): afford, agree, appear, arrange, expect, forget, hope, learn, need, offer, plan, prefer, prepare, pretend,
promise, refuse, seem, swear, tend, want, wait, wish.
ADJ: angry, dangerous, difficult, easy, expensive, fun, glad, good, great, happy, hard, important, impossible,
necessary, possible, sad, wrong, etc.

THE USE OF THE INFINITIVE WITHOUT TO

THE TO-INFINITIVE IS USED EXAMPLE

1) after modal verbs can / may / must / should You must be back at 12 o'clock.

2) after had better/would rather/to do nothing but I'd rather stay in tonight.

3) after make/let/see/hear/feel/have + object I made him apologize.

BUT  in the passive form: be made/be heard/be He was made to apologize.

seen + to -infinitive