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   Hi, Anton Shepelev!   
   I read your message from 03.07.2022 13:27   
      
     ak>> In one story I read this:   
     AS> A nice way to meantion that pearl of English literature --   
     AS> Jekyll&Hyde. By the way, I highly commend all of Stevenson's short   
     AS> stories, which are legally available for free (as in beer) and in   
     AS> free (as in freedom) formats, such as. txt and. epub!   
      
     ak>> ... "The face of Hyde sat heavily on his memory. He felt (what was   
     ak>> rare to him) a nausea and distaste of life, and in the gloom of   
     ak>> his spirits, he seemed to read a menace in the flickering of the   
     ak>> firelight on the polished cabinets and the uneasy starting of the   
     ak>> shadow on the roof."   
      
     ak>> I saw a strange using of the Infinitive:   
      
     AS> a strage *use* of the Infinitive:   
      
   Can I use "using" without an article ("I saw strange using...")? I am    
   sure there is no strict rule on this account.   
      
     ak>> ... in the gloom of his spirits, he seemed TO READ a menace in the   
     ak>> flickering of the firelight...   
      
     ak>> What would happen if I put it without TO:... in the gloom of his   
     ak>> spirits, he seemed READ a menace in the flickering of the   
     ak>> firelight...   
      
     AS> "he seemed to read" above is not strage but standard and frequent,   
     AS> and means "it seemed to him" or "himseemed". I am sure you have   
     AS> encountered the pattern hundereds of times but paid no attention to   
     AS> it -- it is that unavoidable:   
      
     AS> -- Your cat seems to dislike me.   
     AS> -- You seem to make several posts a week   
     AS> -- He seems to feel ill at ease.   
      
     AS> `seem' is not special in this regard, for many other verbs take the   
     AS> infinitive in like manner, such as `want', `prefer', `like',   
     AS> `love'...   
      
     AS> "He seemed read a menace in the flicker of the firelight" is simply   
     AS> ungrammatical: when I fed it to my English parser, it returned a   
     AS> syntax error. Know you of a single precedent in English literature   
     AS> of two verbs in apposion, one in the Past Simple and the other a   
     AS> bear infinitive?   
      
   In my case "the other" was not a "bare infinite" -- the first one is in    
   Past Simple(seemed) and other is also in Past simple (read).   
      
   PS: Is your English parser is also a spell checker?   
      
   Bye, Anton!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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