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Infinitive adalah kata kerja dasar dalam bahasa Inggris. Infinitive dapat dinyatakan dengan menggunakan ‘to’ yang dikenal dengan istilah to infinitive dan infinitive yang ‘tanpa to’ yang dikenal dengan istilah bare infinitive.
A. Penggunaan to infinitive dalam bentuk aktif
1. Setelah kata sifat
Contoh : She is happy to meet her father
2. Setelah Ordinal number dan only
Contoh : She is always the last to come and the first to leave
3. Setelah kata-kata How, Where, When, What dll
Contoh : We don’t know how to use it
4. Setelah kata kerja transitive antara lain advise, force, ask, for bide, allow dll.
Contoh : He advised me to obey our parents
5. Setelah kata benda
Contoh : I have some letters to write
6. Setelah kata-kata too dan enough (terlalu dan cukup)
Contoh : It is too difficult to understand Passive Voice
It’s clear enough to understand your explanation
7. Sebagai subyek
Contoh : To drive slowly is very necessary
8. Setelah exclamatory sentence
Contoh : How happy to go with you
Sedang bare infinitive (infinitive) tanpa ‘to’ dipakai jika bertemu modal auxiliary seperti: can, may, must, will, shall dll.
Contoh : Benar: I must-speak English
Salah: I must to speak English
Untuk Perfect infinitive menggunakan pola : to have + Verb-III
Contoh : I want to have met you next time
She hopes to have done her duty well
B. Penggunaan Passive infinitive
Pola : (to) be + Verb-III
Contoh : To be critisized makes him angry
(Dikritik membuat dia marah)
I don’t want to be met
(Saya tidak ingin ditemui)
Keterangan :
1. Sebagai Subyek
Contoh : To be given good score made him glad
To be elected as a chief of class made her proud
2. Sebagai Obyek
Contoh : I dislike to be spoken
They don’t agree to be invited to go there
3. Passive infinitive juga bisa diikuti obyek penderita
Contoh : She doesn’t want him to be loved by anyone else
He hoped them to be elected a village chief
4. Setelah kata sifat
Contoh : They are happy to be visited
We are glad to be told that we have succeeded
5. Sebagai kata sifat dan diletakkan dibelakang kata benda yang disifati
Contoh : She has some duties to be done
My father has a lot of book to be read
Untuk nomor lima diatas sebaiknya menggunakan bentuk aktif tapi tidak berubah arti (pasif). Jadi dari contoh :
She has some duties to be done menjadi
She has some duties to do
My father has a lot of book to be read menjadi
My father has a lot of book to read
Demikianlah penjelasan Infinitive dari British Course dalam Materi Grammar. Semoga dengan membaca tulisan saya ini jadi lebih paham dengan materi Infinitive ini. Trimakasih sudah berkunjung di blog British Course ini..
Refference :
– Buku pegangan kursus Effective English Conversation Course (EECC)
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