Uses of the infinitive with to

Uses of the infinitive with to

1⃣ To express the reason and purpose. (to answer the question ?.why) in this usage, to gives meaning. Look at the examples:
He bought some flowers to give to his wife.
He bought some flowers to give to his wife.
2⃣ After certain verbs in the English language, especially the verbs related to feeling (expressing emotions), thinking (expressing mental actions) and saying (expressing verbal actions), these verbs without infinitive with to have an incomplete meaning and must come with an infinitive to be complete. . Let’s get acquainted with an example of these verbs:

choose decide expect forget
hate hope intend learn like
love meanplanprefer
remember want would
like would love agree/promise

They decided to start a business together.
They decided to start a business together

3⃣ after some attributes. After some adjectives in English, the infinitive must come with to so that it is the reason for that adjective, that is, if we want to provide a reason for the adjective, we can use the infinitive with to. An example of these traits are:

disappointed
glad
sad
happy
anxious
pleased
surprised
proud
unhappy

We were happy to come to the end of our journey.
= We were happy because we had come to the end of our journey.

We were happy to have reached the end of our journey.

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