Based on the previous text, judge the following item.In the excerpt ‘And we never connected the dots for women themselves to build the constituencies’ (second sentence of the last paragraph) the phrase ‘to build the constituencies’ functions as an adverb that modifies ‘connected’.
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Syntactic analysis — Infinitive phrase vs. adverbial clause
❌ ERRADO. The phrase 'to build the constituencies' does NOT function as an adverb modifying 'connected'. In the sentence, the infinitive is part of a larger 'for…to' infinitive clause ("for women themselves to build the constituencies and to go out and vote") that functions collectively as an adverbial of purpose. The infinitive phrase alone is not an adverb; it is the verb phrase of that adverbial clause. The item mistakenly isolates 'to build the constituencies' as an independent adverbial modifier, which is grammatically incorrect.
Analysis
The excerpt reads: "And we never connected the dots for women themselves to build the constituencies and to go out and vote." Structure:
Subject: we
Verb: connected
Object: the dots
Prepositional phrase: for women themselves
Infinitive clauses: to build the constituencies and to go out and vote
Here, the construction is a for-to infinitive clause: the preposition 'for' introduces a subject (women themselves) followed by an infinitive verb phrase. The whole clause for women themselves to build the constituencies functions as an adverbial of purpose, answering why the dots were connected. The infinitive phrase to build the constituencies is merely the predicate of that clause; it does not independently modify the verb connected.
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In English, infinitive phrases can function as adverbs (e.g., "He came to help"). However, when preceded by a 'for' + noun phrase, they form a for-to infinitive clause that works as a single adverbial unit. On tests, the banca often tries to trick you by presenting a part as if it were the whole.