{"id":557,"date":"2018-10-14T21:38:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T20:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2020-05-13T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T21:15:14","slug":"only-full-infinitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/only-full-infinitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Only + full infinitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>&#8220;<strong>Only + full infinitive<\/strong>&#8221; is a set construction. It points to a surprising or frustrating subsequent event. Sometimes it can be replaced by<br \/>\nthe weaker &#8220;but + finite verb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I went into town to buy a new suit, <strong>only to find <\/strong>that I&#8217;d left my wallet at home.<\/li>\n<li>I went into town to buy a new suit, <strong>but found<\/strong> I&#8217;d left my wallet at home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_554\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/song\/heart-of-glass\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-554\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-554\" src=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hear_of_glass-300x242.png\" alt=\"heart of glass\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hear_of_glass-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hear_of_glass.png 374w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seemed like the real thing, only to find mistrust.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Seemed like the real thing, only to find mistrust, love&#8217;s gone behind<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Only + full infinitive&#8221; is a set construction. It points to a surprising or frustrating subsequent event. Sometimes it can be replaced by the weaker &#8220;but + finite verb&#8221;. I went into town to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melodicpop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}