Locate the [infinitive / infinitive phrase] and identify its function 1- the best plumber to call is Mr. Jones

2-Henry brought Jeri a ring to show his love

3-Each year Merriweather tried to find more deductions for his tax return

4- To patch the hole, the mechanic inserted a plug

5- She learned to read and write English in Kenya

6- Eric’s desire to do everything perfectly will eventually frustrate him

7- To pay that much money for a television is foolish

8- Yesterday Smith exercised all day to lose some weight before the wedding

9- His only ambition was to succeed at his job

10- To attempt an explanation for this phenomenon would do little good

The institute of international research is holding its annual convention. this year more than 500 scholars have been invited to hear research reports on many timely topics. approximately 250 big name scientists will be winging their way to washington, d. c. how can the underlined sentence be revised so that it fits the tone of the passage? a) approximately 250 people will be in washington, d. c. b) approximately 250 bigwigs will be flying to washington, d. c. c) approximately 250 science people will be going to washington, d. c. d) approximately 250 well-known scientists will be arriving in washington, d. c.

If the author of the gift of the magi had made the reader aware of the gift jim had purchased in the beginning of the story , this would be an example of

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.