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   Alexander Koryagin - All:   
      
   > In one story I read this:   
      
   A nice way to meantion that pearl of English literature --   
   Jekyll&Hyde. By the way, I highly commend all of   
   Stevenson's short stories, which are legally available for   
   free (as in beer) and in free (as in freedom) formats, such   
   as .txt and .epub !   
      
   > ... "The face of Hyde sat heavily on his memory. He felt   
   > (what was rare to him) a nausea and distaste of life, and   
   > in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed to read a menace   
   > in the flickering of the firelight on the polished   
   > cabinets and the uneasy starting of the shadow on the   
   > roof."   
   >   
   > I saw a strange using of the Infinitive:   
      
   a strage *use* of the Infinitive:   
      
   > ...in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed TO READ a   
   > menace in the flickering of the firelight...   
   >   
   > What would happen if I put it without TO:   
   > ...in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed READ a menace   
   > in the flickering of the firelight...   
      
   "he seemed to read" above is not strage but standard and   
   frequent, and means "it seemed to him" or "himseemed". I am   
   sure you have encountered the pattern hundereds of times   
   but paid no attention to it -- it is that unavoidable:   
      
   -- Your cat seems to dislike me.   
   -- You seem to make several posts a week   
   -- He seems to feel ill at ease.   
      
   `seem' is not special in this regard, for many other verbs   
   take the infinitive in like manner, such as `want',   
   `prefer', `like', `love'...   
      
   "He seemed read a menace in the flicker of the firelight"   
   is simply ungrammatical: when I fed it to my English   
   parser, it returned a syntax error. Know you of a single   
   precedent in English literature of two verbs in   
   apposion, one in the Past Simple and the other a bear   
   infinitive?   
      
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