Predicative Complexes: TYPES

Gregorio’s footsteps could be heard retreating unhurriedly down the stair.

• A/ The Objective Participial Construction

• B/ The Subjective Participial Construction

• C/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• D/ The Subjective Infinitive Construction

2. Hardly a day passed without their thinking of a visit to the Russian museum.

• A/ The for-to-Infinitive Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction

3. He brought the novel for the editor to read.

• A/ The for-to-Infinitive Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction

4. He had his appendix removed when he was six.

• A/ The Objective Participial Construction

• B/ The Subjective Participial Construction

• C/ The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction

• D/ The Subjective Infinitive Construction

5. He had voted against our giving her a birthday present.

• A/ The for-to-Infinitive Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction

6. He has always liked taking risks and it isn’t easy for us to persuade him not to do it now.

• A/ The for-to-Infinitive Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction

7. He hated her to wake him up every morning.

• A/ The for-to-Infinitive Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction

8. He insisted on my coming there at once.

• A/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• B/ The Nominative Absolute Construction

• C/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• D/ The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction

9. He looked at her intently, his curiosity reviving.

• A/ The Nominative Absolute Construction

• B/ Predicative Construction with the Gerund

• C/ The Nominative Absolute Participial Construction

• D/ The Prepositional Absolute Participial Construction

10. He was seen crossing the street.

• A/ The Objective Participial Construction

• B/ The Subjective Participial Construction

• C/ The Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction

• D/ The Subjective Infinitive Construction