INF+TO, INF WITHOUT TO (шпаргалка)

Infinitive with to

Infinitive without to

Purpose

I went to the kitchen to drink

After: modal verbs

After: advice, agree, appear, decide, hope, manage, offer, promise, refuse, seem, afford, pretend….

After: let, make, see, hear, feel

After: know, decide, ask, learn, remember, want…

After: had better, would rather

I would rather buy this skirt than that one.

After: nice, sorry, glad, happy, willing, afraid, ashamed

He is sorry to inform you about the fire.

Help + (to) inf

Homogeneous

He went to her home to give her money and check her mail box

Negative infinitive with not

He decided not to go to the shop today.

She cannot swim

After : too, enough

She is too young to walk alone

After: it+be+adj+noun or pronoun

It was nice of him to help me.

After: would like, would love, would prefer

After: only

He told it to her only to check her reaction