Define the functions of the Infinitives in the sentences below.

1. The news-teller may not resort to conjecture or supposition.

2. Their task was to designate the boundaries of the region.

3. It is necessary to tap useful sources.

4. It is the story to hit the headlines.

5. The story is important enough to find its way into a stop press column.

6. He decided to attract readers’ attention by including a sound bite in the article.

7. To tell the truth, you have got hold of some back copies.

8. He wrote to a chief editor to ask him for a job on his rag.

9. BBC-1 began to present more programmes of general interest.

10. Someone hacked into our company’s computer as if to destroy our files.

11. The aim is to raise the national media’s analytical, informative, aesthetic standards to the international level.

12. The journalist was glad to have got free access to printed matter.

Define the Complexes with the Infinitive in the following sentences.

1. We believe this magazine to be an example of a famous fashion glossy.

2. Everybody wanted the speaker to come down to brass tacks.

3. It is important for pensioners to get special concessions on buses and trains.

4. We are anxious for this channel to place greater emphasis on minority interests.

5. It is just the paper for me to subscribe.

6. If you subscribe to newspapers, you are certain to get hundreds of messages.

7. Some ISP’s let the users screen out unwanted mail.

8. They happened to install update anti-virus software.

9. He seemed to have written to an agony aunt.

10. It is interesting for me to read the obituaries about the lives of well-known people.

11. I find the classified ads to be very helpful if you want to sell something.

12. They are expected to subscribe to chat rooms.

Change the following sentences using Complexes with the Infinitive.

1. It is said that the news has a quality of recency about it.

2. It is reported that the news-teller has resorted to conjecture and supposition.

3. It is known that journalists get stories by tapping useful sources.

4. It is believed that you have put your own spin on the story.

5. It appeared that the journalist had included a sound bite in what he had written.

6. We consider that this paper is of very high quality.

7. They expect that the copy is ready for a deadline.

8. The editor finds that the story is hot off the press.

9. It is necessary that the article should hit the headlines.

10. It happened that the journalist had been taken to court for libel and defamation of character.

11. It’s advisable that newspapers should be independent of any political party.

12.It is stated that the British press is subject to the general law on publications.