В пособии рассматриваются основные моменты английской грамматики: части речи имя существительное, имя прилагательное и наречие; видо-временные формы глагола; модальные глаголы; неличные формы глагола

18. for or of

We can use of after the adjectives describing the people’s behaviour: good,
nice, kind, brave, honest, clever, silly, wrong, rude....
It’s kind of you to invite me.
It was clever of you to work out the answer.

Compare good of and good for:

It was good of you It was good for you
to go jogging with me. to go jogging with me.
(= it was a kind action) (=it was a healthy experience for you)

19. The Infinitive as Parenthesis

The infinitive as parenthesis is used with to. It is generally a set phrase, such
as to tell the truth, to be quite frank, to say the least, to put it mildly
(crudely), so to speak, strange to say, to make matters worse, to begin
with, to cap smth., to be honest, to cut a long story short etc.


The place of the parenthetic phrase in the sentence is not fixed though it is
usually placed at the beginning or sometimes at the end of a sentence. In
writing it is marked off by a comma:
To be perfectly frank, you are a bad driver.
To be fair, he wasn’t entirely to blame.
To cut a long story short, we said ‘No’.
To make matters worse, it began to rain and soon we got wet to
the skin.
Strange to say, he has never been in the theatre.
To put it at its simplest, he believed in Nature.
To cap misfortune, the postman brought him five returned
manuscripts.
He is acting rather rashly, to say the least.
When they found out I was not one of them, so to speak,
they ignored me.

THE GERUND

1. Form and Use

The form of a verb ending in –ing is sometimes called (a) the present