In Infinitive clauses^x, Negations^x

Thanks, Paco. Quirk, et al are no help with the reason; they just say that some do and some don't usually take transferred negation. Do: anticipate, be supposed to, believe, calculate, expect, figure, imagine, reckon, suppose, think, appear, seem, feel/look/sound as if, wish...

Hello Taka I know you get unpleasant with this, but please allow me to put my two cents on your question. "He learned to smoke" If we compare this with "He learned English", we see "to smoke" here is working as a noun phrase. If we negate the action "smoke", we get a sub-surface collocation...

"possible", "impossible", and their negations (like many other adjectives) can take a "FOR ... TO ..." clause as subject . Leave out "on the basic level"; it just specifies what kind of understanding (basic) is meant. The structure is "FOR a Russian or French person TO understand his music is...