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PREDICATIVE COMPLEXES, V used in passive voice, V used in passive voice,…

- - - - I saw him enter this door.
    - - He is supposed to have arrived already.
  - - - We saw the storm approaching. - We saw that the storm was approaching.
      - CONTAINING AN INFINITIVE
      - CONTAINING PARTICIPLE
    - - The door was painted green. - The door was painted and it became green.
  - - - FINITE VERB serves as:
        
        comment
        
        estimate
        
        judgement
        
        conclusion
        
        attitude
  - - - I didn`t want him to see me here.
        
        USED AFTER V
        
        V of wish and intention (to wish, to want, to desire, to choose, to prefer, should/would like, to intend, to mean)
        
        Eg.: I would like you to see him in his office.
        
        V of emotion and attitude (to like, to dislike, to love, to hate, cannot/could not bear)
        
        Eg.: I hate you to go away.
        
        V of mental activity (to think, to suppose, to consider, to believe, to know, to find, to expect, to imagine, to understand, to assume, to acknowledge, to feel, to trust)
        
        Eg.: He believed Jenny to be playing in the garden.
        
        V of declaring (to declare, to report, to pronounce)
        
        Eg.: They reported the plane to have been lost.
        
        Causative V (to make, to have)
        
        Eg.: She would not allow the life of the child to be risked.
        
        V of perception (to see, to watch, to hear, to feel, to observe, to notice)
        
        Eg.: We saw planes zoom into the air.
    - - There we saw the crocodiles swimming about
        
        USED WITH
        
        V of sense perception (see, hear, feel)
        
        Eg.: There we saw the crocodiles swimming about.
        
        V of wish
        
        Eg.: Nobody wanted him going there alone.
        
        Causative V (to have, to get)
        
        Eg.: He got them running his errands every day.
    - - We heard the door shut
        
        CAN BE ATTACHED TO*
        
        V of sense perception (to see, to fear, to feel, to watch)
        
        Eg.: We heard the door shut.
        
        V of mental activity (to think. to believe, to consider, to remember)
        
        Eg.: At first she thought Johnny killed.
        
        V of wish
        
        Eg.: Nobody wanted it done in such a way.
        
        Causative V (to have, to get)
        
        Eg.: How do you think the men would have their wounds dressed, get themselves washed...
    - - He judged her young and pleasing
        
        MAY BE USED AFTER
        
        V of mental activity and sense perception in the meaning of judgement, opinion, conclusion (to appreciate, to believe, to claim, to class, to consider, to condemn, to count, to deem, to esteem, to fancy, to feel, to figure, to imagine, to impart, to interpret, to judge, to look, to percieve, to picture, to place, to pronounce, to recognize, to regard, to see, to sum up, to take, to think, to visualize, etc.)
        
        Eg.: I figured you for a good guy.
        
        V implying that the result of the action will be a new quality, state, social standing, attitude to the action:
        
        V with causative meaning (to make, to render, to hit, to have, to worry, to scare, etc.) implying change of state or impression
        
        Eg.: This blow made him crazy.
        
        V denoting the action resulting in the change of colour (to paint, to dye, ect.)
        
        Eg.: They painted the door green.
        
        V denoting actions resulting in the change of social rank, status, function, giving identification to, a person
        
        Eg.: They elected him President.
        
        V denoting motion, movement to a different position or state (to bring, to carry, to deliver, to kick, to march, to pick, to put, to send, to tear, to toss)
        
        Eg.: She pulled the drawer open.