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Assignment: Translating the infinitive

1. Point out the infinitives in the sentences, identify their form. Translate the
sentences into Ukrainian.
1. I don't like to be told what to buy.
2. We are happy to have been invited to the party.
3. This is an opportunity to be made use of.
4. I am glad to have told you this story.
5. He asked to be shown the document.
6. To remain competitive he cannot raise prices.
7. There is an agreed-upon plan to follow.
8. It was necessary to do something.
9. It is useless to discuss this problem.
10.I have not had time to examine that room yet.
11.I was too young to think such things at the time.
12. «I hope you'll have enough to eat», said. Julia.
13.You must prepare your people for the changes about to take place.
14.The first large area to experience an acute shortage of wood was Britain.
15.In the creek there are birds to watch, and fish to catch, and streams to explore.
16.«I think», he said, «that to continue this discussion is to waste time.»
17.То influence state affairs as well as get a wage increase, must be their goal.
18.It was rare to find a British engineer fluent in a foreign language.
19.It pays a company to become involved in the apprenticeship programme.
20.A Japanese electronics firm claims to have made a big advance in the world race to
develop a fifth-generation computer.
21.We have accumulated enough equipment to provide a computer for each of our 56
full-time staff members.
22.Ukraine's economic problems are also too vast to be helped by a sudden influx of
dollars.
23.Kharkiv is one of the few regions in Ukraine to have attracted direct foreign
investments.
24.Attempts by the Bank of England to support the pound result in loss of foreign
reserves.
25.There are many planning factors to be considered in relation to an overseas market.
26.The manager is the first to be blamed for a systems crash but the last to be thanked
when things go right.
27.Leisure is an activity which frequently requires money to be spent upon it.
28.The 15-point declaration to be converted into a treaty later this year was signed in
Downing Street.
29.The first thing to determine is that demand is not the same thing as desire or need or
want.
30.He felt that it was something to be connected with such a place.

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