In Old Spanish the final =r= of the infinitive frequently assimilates to the initial =l= of the enclitic pronoun.
It was not necessary that the subject of a dependent infinitive should be the same as that of the verb on which it depended.
For one case we have a reduced infinitive with at: a-do (X.
The infinitive has dropped all trace of an ending.
If there is no infinitive to verbs, as I suppose, insert the simplest existing form, as He loves, &c.
There is nothing answering to the infinitive and participle.
If one says, “I meant to have visited Paris and to have returned to London before my father arrived from America,” the past infinitive in the dependent clause is necessary for the expression of the completion of the acts purposed.
But this to belongs to the present infinitive only, and properly finds no place in such expressions as “He was fool enough to have risked his good name.
The infinitive with to expresses the relation of an act as so conceived, so that both analogy and prevalent usage require “meant to go” instead of “meant to have gone.
The infinitive mood is used with or without to differently from the present usage--prefixed where we omit, omitted where we prefix.
It is also employed, like the Hebrew infinitive absolute, where we use the present participle active, sometimes with a preposition, ex.
I had always managed to satisfy him with my remarks, but when he approached me one night, with his grammar book in his hand, and asked me if I knew anything about the infinitive split, the question almost took my breath away.
This advice was not taken, for he bought two more cheap second-hand grammar books, and still could not get on the track of the infinitive split.
The simple infinitive is here used without to where to would now be inserted.
This is the gerundialinfinitive after an adjective: comp.
This omission of the preposition now occurs with so few verbs that 'to' is often called the sign of the infinitive, but in Early English the only sign of the infinitive was the termination en (e.
The infinitive, being used as a noun, had a dative form called the gerund, which was preceded by the preposition to, and when this became confused with the simple infinitive the use of to became general.
Secondly in verbs compounded with prepositions the accent of the verb varies according as to whether the verb is used enclitically or not--thus after the negative ni or in the infinitive and imperative.
Manx exhibits the same tendency as Scottish to use analytical and periphrastic forms in the verb, thus jannoo, "to do," is used like Scottish deanamh with an infinitive to express the past and future.
The infinitive is sometimes active in form while it is passive in meaning, as in the expression, "a house to let.
Infinitive phrase: "No imprudent, no sociable angel, ever dropped an early syllable to answer his longing.
Whether each sentence containing an adverbial infinitivehas the meaning of purpose, result, etc.
It will be noticed that all the other defective verbs take the pure infinitive without to, while ought always has to.
Of course, if the purpose were to represent a prior fact or completed action, the perfect infinitive would be the very thing.
There is a construction which is becoming more and more common among good writers,--the placing an adverb between to of the infinitive and the infinitive itself.
Must is present or past tense, according to the infinitive used.
In the following citations, see if the adverbs can be placed before or after the infinitive and still modify it as clearly as they now do:-- 1.
An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood.
The infinitive II1 of saharu is philologically possible.
This is to my knowledge the first occurence of the infinitive of this verb, paheru, not paharu.
What is the Split Infinitive and why the Past Participle?
The Past Participle (Mrs. Clutterbuck) can't open her poor little timid mouth but the Split Infinitive is roaring at her.
I cannot find any instance either of "patiens" or "impatiens" used in this connection; but numerous instances of other adjectives and participles followed by the infinitive mood may be found in pp.
The Latin poets having taken this license, then proceeded a step further, and substituted the infinitive mood for the gerund in di.
In the phrase I am forced to speak, the word speak is (in the present English) an infinitive also.
When the verb is not in the infinitive mood, the negative follows it.
This we know from its power in those languages where the infinitive has a characteristic sign; as, in German, Die Augen thaten ihm winken.
When the verb is in the infinitive mood, the negative precedes it.
Let, however, the same change affect both languages; that change being the abandonment, on both sides, of the infinitive termination altogether.
In order to understand clearly the use of the so-called infinitive mood in English, it is necessary to bear in mind two facts, one a matter of logic, the other a matter of history.
The combination to err, is at this moment an infinitive verb.
The infinitive mood of the so-called verb substantive is a noun; not, however, because it is a verb substantive, but because it is aninfinitive mood.
This gerundive use of the infinitive is very common in this play.
Another example of the infinitive used as a gerund.
It shows no marked archaisms of form, unless the infinitive in -ier is to be accounted as such.
The use of theinfinitive and the participle with the past tense of verbs is also a cause of frequent error.
For this there is one sufficient justification, to wit: that the present infinitive is the form in which a Latin or a Greek root is always given in Webster and other received lexicographic authorities.
The indication of the Latin infinitive will be found of great utility, as it is the part by which a Latin verb is referred to in the Dictionary.
This is a verb-suffix, marking theinfinitive of a "living" conjugation.
This suffix marks the infinitive of the first conjugation, and also the past participle.
This ending terminates the past participles of verbs whose infinitive ends in e.
When it is dependent on another verb, in what case should the present infinitive be used?
When it is an attribute complement of an expressed subject of the infinitive to be; as, They believed her to be ME, He denied it to have been him.
Infinitives, explanation of; forms of; cases used with; rules for sequence of infinitive tenses; split.
The wrong tense of the infinitive is frequently used.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infinitive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: auxiliary; intransitive; transitive
