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| | Infinitive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The bare infinitive form is also the present subjunctive form and the imperative form, although most grammarians do not consider uses of the present subjunctive or imperative to be uses of the bare infinitive. | | | Formation of the infinitive in Romance languages reflects that of their ancestor, Latin, in which a significant majority of verbs had an infinitive ending with -re (with a varying vowel, called the thematical, preceding it). | | | However, Bulgarian and Macedonian have lost the infinitive. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive
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| | Split infinitive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first known use of the term "split infinitive" was in 1897. | | | Romance languages, on the other hand, do separate infinitives from their prepositions, though grammarians of those languages do not normally use the term "split infinitive" to describe the phenomenon. | | | For example, people will contort sentences to avoid placing an adverb in its usual position between the auxiliary verb and the participle, leading to constructions such as, "The argument originally had been used…" instead of "The argument had originally been used", which is more natural for most speakers. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive
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| | AUE: FAQ excerpt: Split infinitive |
| | No split infinitives are to be found in the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Pope, or Dryden, or in the King James Version of the Bible. | | | The dispute is between those who believe that split infinitives should be avoided when this can be done with no sacrifice of clarity or naturalness, and those who believe that no effort whatever should be made to avoid them. | | | Phrases consisting of "to be" or "to have" followed by an adverb and a participle are *not* split infinitives, and constitute the natural word order. |
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http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxspliti.html
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| | MODAL AUXILIARY, INFINITIVE |
| | Paraphrase of bare infinitive of the modal auxiliary. | | | Paraphrase of the bare infinitive with the modal auxiliary | | | The expanded form of (3) is similar to (4) where the infinitive phrase is complement to the verb cease. |
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http://userpages.burgoyne.com/bdespain/grammar/gram253.htm
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| | Greek infinitive & participle |
| | This is the use of the infinitive (or infinitive phrase) after a verb perception or communication. | | | In some respects this could be called an "epexegetical infinitive" (but we are reserving that term exclusively for the substantival infinitive). | | | It should be translated while (for present infinitives) or as, when (for aorist infinitives) plus an appropriate finite verb. |
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http://www.bcbsr.com/greek/gvbls.html
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| | The Infinitive |
| | They believe that split infinitives are perfectly appropriate, especially in informal writing. | | | Recognize an infinitive even when it is missing the to. | | | Some English teachers believe that thou shall not split infinitives was written on the stone tablets that Moses carried down from the mountain. |
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http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/infinitive.htm
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| | Burton: The INFINITIVE with the article. |
| | The Infinitive with the article being by means of that article practically a declinable noun, the various uses are grouped in the following sections according to cases. | | | Thus the use of the Infinitive without the article after adjectives of fitness, worthiness, etc., doubtless sprang originally from the thought of the Infinitive as a dative. | | | The force of the other prepositions used with the Infinitive scarcely needs special definition, the meaning of each being in general the same as that of the same preposition governing nouns. |
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http://www.dabar.org/BurtonMoodsTenses/INFINITIVE-article.html
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| | factoids > English > split infinitive |
| | The infinitive is the unconjugated, or root, form of the verb. | | | No split infinitives are to be found in the works of Shakespeare, Spenser, Pope, or Dryden, or in the King James Version of the Bible. | | | These people betray by their practice that their aversion to the split infinitive springs not from instinctive good taste, but from tame acceptance of the misinterpreted opinion of others; for they will subject their sentences to the queerest distortions, all to escape imaginary split infinitives. |
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http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/s/split.htm
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| | English Language Forum (ESL) - infinitive |
| | There are two kinds of infinitives: 1) 'to' infinitives and 2) zero, or bare infinitives. | | | Old English infinitive verbs were marked by the suffix -an, and as that suffix was undergoing change in Middle English, the word to was introduced: | | | Just because people pin point ' infinitive ' in a sentence differently that makes me wonder if I understand ' infinitive ' properly. |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/2063-infinitive-print.html
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| | INFINITIVE |
| | It seems better, therefore, to begin with those uses of the Infinitive which are most evidently connected with the original dative function, and proceed to those in which the dative force is vanishing or lost. | | | This is the general plan pursued in the following sections, though it is by no means affirmed that in details the precise order of historical development has been followed. | | | Many of these case-functions are identical with those which belong to other substantives; some are peculiar to the Infinitive. |
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http://www.dabar.org/BurtonMoodsTenses/INFINITIVE.html
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| | Dictionary of English - split infinitive |
| | English often uses to with an infinitive, as in I'd like to come, and to has come to be regarded as part of the infinitive. | | | These English grammarians therefore decided that the English two-word infinitive should not be interrupted by another word either, and their injunction against the split infinitive survives to the present time: 'Do not insert an adverb or adverbial phrase between to and the following verb'. | | | The tenuous basis of the ban has been pointed out often enough for most people to be aware of it, but the prejudice against the split infinitive seems to be firmly embedded in English speakers' psyche. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/english/data/d0082826.html
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| | Infinitive |
| | Determine the infinitive form of a conjugated word. | | | Either 1 or 2 possible infinitives are returned. | | | - Determine the infinitive form of a conjugated word |
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http://savage.net.au/Perl-modules/html/Lingua/EN/Infinitive.html
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| | Words: Woe and Wonder |
| | It is probably safe to say that the number of people who would never split an infinitive is a good deal larger than the number of people who actually know what an infinitive is and does. | | | While it's true an infinitive is never split in Latin, there's a simple reason: it's one word. | | | That's why Fowler says people who insist on tinkering with split infinitives, trying to fix what they consider poor style, should be ready to recast entire sentences instead of merely "having a word lifted from its original place and dumped elsewhere." |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/infinitives.html
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| | Verb combimation (Infinitive vs -ing form) |
| | The word to can be part of infinitive (I want to see you). | | | The verb of perception (see, watch, notice, hear, listen, feel) are followed by bare infinitive or by -ing form (present participle). | | | Prepositions (e.g., in, on, at, with, from, etc.) are always followed by the -ing form rather than infinitive. |
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http://www.uazone.org/friends/esl4rus/ingform.html
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| | Old English to-Infinitive: Status & Recategorisation |
| | The first consequence is that verb movement to D was lost resulting in the break-up of the syntactic unity of the to-infinitive. | | | Recall that in OE to was only used before a dative form of the infinitive ending in enne/anne. | | | The fact that it was impossible for prepositions to precede the to-infinitive in OE provides yet another argument in favour of our claim that to was a preposition. |
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http://www.shakespeare.uk.net/journal/2_1/jarad2_1.html
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| | INFINITIVE |
| | Usually the version with an infinitive with anticipatory it is awkward. | | | It is possible that these participles in the predicate are simply taking the infinitive as a complement. | | | He may have kept his hat on in the presence of King Charles for this reason. |
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http://userpages.burgoyne.com/bdespain/grammar/gram241.htm
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| | Verbals: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives |
| | Split infinitives occur when additional words are included between to and the verb in an infinitive. | | | the captain (subject complement for Carol, via state of being expressed in infinitive) | | | Prepositional Phrases: to him, to the committee, to my house, to the mountains, to us, to this address |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html
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| | Split Infinitive - It's not always wrong |
| | There are some cases in which infinitives should not be split. | | | First, it is important to understand what an infinitive is. Be sure to visit this page if you're not sure what an infinitive is: | | | Summary of what you need to know about split infinitives |
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http://www.testmagic.com/grammar/explanations/verbs/split-infinitive.asp
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| | KET DL Latin 3 Grammatica Infinitives and Infinitive Clauses |
| | Replace sum with the infinitive esse to form the perfect infinitive of a deponent. | | | Note: You will not encounter indirect statement until Chapter 46, but this is probably the most significant use of all the different infinitives that you will use. | | | The perfect active infinitive is usually translated as "to have _______." For example, |
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http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/grammar/perfacti.htm
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| | infinitive.html |
| | Anyone who has read the Aeneid will remember that the imperfect indicative is often written as an infinitive; exclamabant becomes exclamare. | | | It is easy to see that indirect discourse is really an elevated, later form of "I bid you for being well." Indirect discourse extends to verbs of promising, hoping, expecting, etc. It is evident that the future and perfect forms of the infinitive arose from the need to make clear temporal distinctions within indirect discourse. | | | There are two types of infinitive clauses: those in which the infinitive is interchangeable with the subjunctive, and indirect statements. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~struck/classes/latin309/syntax/infinitive.html
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| | Language Corner: Split Infinitive |
| | Splitting an infinitive is not a mortal sin, but it’s nice to avoid because it makes some grammarians and other thoughtful readers — the legions those grammarians taught — grind their teeth. | | | But there are times when we should let the infinitive fanatics grin and bear it. | | | The writer said a business executive “pushed a button to officially activate the assembly lines at the $212 million plant recently.” There are alternatives, but “officially” sounds fine where it is, right in the middle of that infinitive. |
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http://www.cjr.org/tools/lc/splitinfin.asp
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| | English Grammar: Infinitive or -ing? (EnglishClub.com) |
| | Some verbs can be followed by the -ing form or the infinitive without a big change in meaning: begin, continue, hate, intend, like, love, prefer, propose, start. | | | The infinitive form is always used after adjectives, for example: | | | The infinitive form is used after adjective + enough: |
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http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-m_infinitive-ing.htm
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| | Split infinitive, again - English Language Forum (ESL) |
| | On the other hand in english the infinitive is sometimes used in a sentece where other languages would use a complex tense for example: "people wanted him to smile", here I see the "to smile" not as a unit and I wouldn't mind saying :"people wanted him to at least smile". | | | I don't quite agree that "to + verb" is not an infinitive and I am convinced that "to" shouldn't be always considered to have a prepositional role. | | | the only way to express an infinitive in the english language is using the infinitive marker (not the preposition) "to" |
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http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/general-language-discussions/13322-split-infinitive-again.html
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| | This lesson will focus primarily on verbs that precede infinitives and gerunds when they are used as objects in a sentence. | | | Some verbs have the same meaning when followed by an infinitive or a gerund: | | | You can also use either an infinitive or a gerund after go on. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7583/gerinfless.html
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| | The Infinitive Stem |
| | The infinitive stem is formed by removing the following from the end of the verb in its infinitive or dictionary form: | | | This form is important because it is used in forming the following verb forms: | | | What to remove to get the infinitive stem |
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http://www.uta.fi/~km56049/finnish/infform.html
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| | French Passive Infinitive |
| | This phenomenon can be divided into two categories: verbs that must be followed by a preposition (see lesson) and the passive infinitive, which you will learn about in this lesson. | | | Note that sometimes c'est and il est must be followed by de rather than à - learn more. | | | The passive infinitive occurs when a sentence is written in such a way that the infinitive has a passive, rather than active, meaning. |
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http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/passiveinf.htm?terms=dog+clothes+for+...
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| | AskOxford: What is a split infinitive, and why should I avoid using one? |
| | What is a split infinitive, and why should I avoid using one? | | | AskOxford: What is a split infinitive, and why should I avoid using one? | | | The infinitive is to go, and it has been 'split' by the adverb boldly. |
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http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/splitinfinitives
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| | Using the Infinitive # 1 |
| | An earlier page described how to form and translate the infinitive. | | | I begin to do, I try to do. | | | The infinitive is often used with verbs that mean I wish, I can, I order etc. Here are examples using two such verbs we have learned. |
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http://chss2.montclair.edu/classics/javascript/infinitive1.html
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| | Infinitive Phrases |
| | The infinitive phrase includes the infinitive and the object of the infinitive or any modifiers related to the infinitive. | | | A DEMOCRAT is the object of the infinitive. | | | THE HYPE is the object of the infinitive. |
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http://grammar.uoregon.edu/phrases/infinitiveP.html
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| | Infinitive |
| | An infinitive phrase is the infinitive plus any complements and any modifiers of the infinitive and complements. | | | In the above examples, the infinitive is italicized and the infinitive phrase is underlined. | | | The verb of the infinitive is normally preceded by the word to. |
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http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000078.htm
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| | § 59. split infinitive. 1. Grammar. The American Heritage Book of English Usage. 1996 |
| | Here what is split is not an infinitive but a prepositional phrase. | | | Split infinitives have been condemned as ungrammatical for nearly 200 years, but it is hard to see what exactly is wrong with saying to boldly go. | | | Remember too that infinitive phrases in which the adverb precedes a participle, such as to be rapidly rising, to be clearly understood, and to have been ruefully mistaken, are not split and should be acceptable to everybody. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/64/C001/059.html
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| | The infinitive |
| | (Note the use of the genitive case after the infinitive for "the horse".) | | | an intransitive) the infinitive is formed from the verbal noun with no preceding "a" or lenition. | | | There are two distinct ways in which an infinitive is used in a sentence. |
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http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~martainn/ag_ionnsachadh/infinitive.htm
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| | Kiswahili Grammar Notes -- The Infinitive |
| | The infinitive is sometimes used in an impersonal sense. | | | The basic form of the infinitive may be used, or any of its derivational forms. | | | The infinitive is used as the second of two verbs in a sentence if the subject of both is the same and there is no reference to the order of the actions. |
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http://www.yale.edu/swahili/grammar/backup/infinity.htm
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| | Infinitives |
| | You can emphasize that the action described by the infinitive occurred in thepast or was completed by adding the auxiliaryhave after the infinitive marker to. | | | The infinitive is a nonfinite verb that consists ofthe infinitive marker to followed by the baseform of the verb. | | | As the subject of a sentence whose main verb is a form of be, especially if the infinitive expresses an intention or a purpose. |
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http://www.mhhe.com/mayfieldpub/tsw/infiniti.htm
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| | Spanish Grammar: acabar de + infinitive |
| | I just took my sister to her house. | | | When this occurs, the first verb is conjugated, while the second verb remains in the infinitive form. | | | One such expression combines the verb acabar (conjugated) with an infinitive. |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/acabarde.htm
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| | 2.4d - Verbal Phrases: Infinitive Participal, Gerund |
| | There are three types of verbals: infinitive, participial, and gerund. | | | start with an infinitive which is followed by any objects, and/or modifiers | | | infinitive: to tour object: Australia (the direct object of the infinitive) modifier: slowly (an adverb modifying the infinitive) infinitive phrase: to tour Australia slowly I must study to pass my winter exams with good marks. |
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http://ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_4d.htm#infinitive
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| | Lagelands Grammar - om + te + infinitive |
| | om … te + infinitive to express purpose | | | The phrase begins with om and ends with te + infinitive. | | | te + infinitive expresses purpose (as in English ‘in order to’) and is used widely. |
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dutch/grammatica/infinitive.htm
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| | ESL Quizzes Gerund or Infinitive - (Vera Queiroz) |
| | ESL Quizzes Gerund or Infinitive - (Vera Queiroz) | | | For the list of verbs followed by gerund and the list of verbs followed by infinitive, click here. | | | Click the answer buttons to see the answers. |
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http://www.geocities.com/vcqm/gerundinf.html
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| | Infinitive |
| | The infinitive is a simple word made out of the verb root. | | | The infinitive has been the basis for some of the rules about negative commands and verbs with | | | Infinitives can be used by themselves as polite request. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~echeran/paadanool/lesson28.html
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| | Is It Wrong to Split an Infinitive? |
| | But if placing the infinitive's adverbial modifier either before or after the complete infinitive actually alters your intended meaning or makes it ambiguous, then by all means, go ahead and split the infinitive. | | | In Latin, the infinitive is a single word. | | | Usually, there is no need to split an infinitive, and to do so gratuitously is just asking for trouble from the grammar police. |
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http://www.grammartips.homestead.com/splitinfinitive.html
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| | infinitive on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Oxford: To split (the infinitive) or not to split, that is no longer the question | | | The roots of root infinitives: remarks on infinitival main clauses in adult and child language *. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-infiniti.asp
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| | vouloir + infinitive vs. vouloir que |
| | ésirer," "préférer," "souhaiter") is followed by an infinitive when the subject of the main clause is the same as the subject of the infinitive. | | | I do not want us to be mistaken. | | | II.A. "Etre" + adjective (like many expressions of emotion) is followed by "de" + infinitive when the subject of the main clause is the same as the subject of the infinitive. |
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http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/vouloir.htm
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| | INFINITIVE |
| | The adjective use of the infinitive phrase is quite common and natural. | | | In the following the infinitive phrase of purpose seems to be identifying the haste, but the subject of the infinitive is indefinite and a case might be had for it classifying the noun. | | | In order to maintain that the following is an example of the hAdjC reduced to an infinitive phrase, we must posit an expanded version with the infinitive form present. |
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http://userpages.burgoyne.com/bdespain/grammar/gram252.htm
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| | The Infinitive Phrase |
| | An infinitive phrase will begin with an infinitive [to + simple form of the verb] and include objects and/or modifiers. | | | When an infinitive phrase breaks the flow of a main clause, use a comma both before and after the interrupter. | | | When an infinitive phrase concludes a main clause, you need no punctuation to connect the two sentence components. |
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http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/infinitivephrase.htm
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