Exercise 24
Dispose of all infinitive phrases in the following sentences.
1. The winter climate of Venice is still so sharp as to make foreigners regret the generous fires and warmly built houses of the north.—Howells.
2. I started betimes in the evening so as not to hurry, or waste any strength upon the way.—Blackmore.
3. The way to be original is to be healthy.—Lowell.
4. To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.—Carlyle.
5. The reward of a good sentence is to have written it.—Higginson.
6. Follow the Devil faithfully, you are sure enough to go to the Devil.—Carlyle.
7. The idea of a man’s interviewing himself is rather odd, to be sure.—Holmes.
8. I had the good fortune to see him at New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.—Thackeray.