Please help A. Identifying Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
Underline the infinitive phrase once in each sentence. Underline the infinitive twice.
1. To spend a day without encountering some type of computer is impossible.
2. Most retail stores use computers to keep an accurate count of their
merchandise in stock.
3. Computer analysis of geological areas helps oil companies to select drilling sites.
4. Giant computerized "arms " help to pour molten steel into molds.
5. Highly specialized computers are needed to navigate spacecraft.
6. A programming mistake may cause an entire mission to fail.
7. Many animated films use computers to produce high-quality pictures.
8. Presently, great strides are being made to design even more complex
computers that think for themselves.

B. Identifying Infinitive Phrases
Underline the infinitive phrase in each sentence. On the blank to the right of each
sentence, N for a noun, ADJ for an adjective, or ADV for an adverb.
1. The selection committee plans to evaluate the qualifications of the candidates.
2. To combat rabies is one reason for inoculating pets.
3. The owner of the amusement park uses admission fees to pay his property taxes.
4. The purpose of the gathering was to celebrate the town's bicentennial.
5. The Great Wall of China was built to protect China from northern invaders.
6. The president of the company asked her to call a meeting.
7. Maoris, the first people to inhabit New Zealand, belong to the Polynesian race.
8. Unfortunately, we arrived too late to catch the beginning of the show.

In this excerpt from phillip freneau's poem “american liberty,” the speaker describes being “slaves and minions to a parliament.” what is the intended meaning of this hyperbole? and should we now when spread thro' ev'ry shore, submit to that our fathers shunn'd before? should we, just heaven, our blood and labour spent, be slaves and minions to a parliament? perish the thought, nor may one wretch remain, who dares not fight and in our cause be slain; a. the speaker feels that the colonists should pay their share of taxes. b. the speaker believes that the british government is broken and should be fixed. c. the speaker thinks that the colonists are being unfairly treated by the british government. d. the speaker intends to lead a slave revolt against the british government.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

Ais a group of individuals of the same that exist in the same place at the same time