31 Adjective + Infinitive Structure
Adjectives
Adjectives are determiners that can be placed in two different positions within a sentence to modify or describe a person or a thing.
Some Adjectives can be followed by the Infinitive form of verbs to express feelings or reactions.
This kind of sentence has the following structure:
Adjective + (noun/phrase) + to + infinitive.
Infitive form is used after certain Adjectives. You can see some of them listed below:
- Difficult
- Easy
- Possible
- Impossible
- Hard
- Right
- Wrong
- Nice
- Clever
- Strange
- It isn’t easy to ride a horse that behaves badly.
- It is very difficult for me to breathe because it smells horrible.
- It would be strange to leave the shop with this bracelet and ring.
Some Adjectives can be followed by the Infinitive form of verbs to express feelings or reactions.
If we wish to express feelings or reactions, we can use some Adjectives which can be followed by the Infinitive form of verbs.
The structure for this is:
Adjective + (noun/phrase) + to + infinitive (e.g. It is expensive to buy.).
For example:
— “It is expensive to buy.” = “Expensive” can be followed by the Infinitive form.
NOTE: Not all Adjectives are followed by the Infinitive form.
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