This sentence is lengthened by means of a series of infinitives used as adverbial modifiers of the complement disposed (a participle used as an adjective).
Verbal nouns in -ing are similar in some of their constructions to infinitives used as nouns (p.
Each of these infinitives (to hope, to flatter, etc.
Each of theseinfinitives takes a complement or a modifier (or both).
Use of words in the Sentence: the Eight Parts of Speech; Infinitives and Participles.
Five-sixths of the infinitives end in en, showing Anglian influence, the remainder mostly in e, as bode 262 r.
The Infinitives of Transitive Verbs, being themselves Nouns, (See Part II.
His accuracy is gained by rapid conversions of words from one inflected form to another: nominatives into accusatives, singulars into plurals, infinitives into participles.
The Infinitives are formed by the word to and some part of the verb or of the verb and auxiliary.
In general, other verbs follow the same endings and forms as do the infinitives above.
The series of infinitives and the omission of the connectives (asyndeton) make the succession of events very rapid and animated.
Multum is the object of ferre, of which mare is the subject, as it is also of all the infinitives in the sentence.
A series of infinitiveswithout connectives, denoting a hasty enumeration of particulars; elsewhere, sometimes, a rapid succession of events.
The infinitivesof this class ended originally in -jan (= -ian).
Exercise 2 In the following sentences the incomplete verbs, including infinitives and participles, are in italics.
Exercise 10 In the following sentences mark the infinitives and participles connected by co-ordinate conjunctions.
Co-ordinate conjunctions are also used to connect infinitives and participles.
Infinitives may also be used as the predicate complement+, thus: To remain ignorant is to remain a slave.
There is no trace of such a term as infinitive in Sanskrit, and yet exactly the same forms, or, at all events, forms strictly analogous to those which we call infinitives in Greek and Latin, exist in Sanskrit.
We laugh at people who still believe in ghosts and witches, but a belief in infinitives and supines is not only tolerated, but inculcated in our best schools and universities.
Grammatical Forms in Sanskrit corresponding to so-called Infinitives in Greek and Latin 47 II.
At that time I was always comforted by these so-called infinitives and other relics of ancient language.
The true original forms should be legde and sægde, the infinitives being lecgan, secgan.
The construction, however, of English infinitives is two fold.
Infinitives and participles which are the infinite parts of the verb cannot be predicates.
The construction, however, of English infinitives is twofold.
The true original forms should be legde and saegde, the infinitives being lecgan, secgan.
The infinitives of verbs end in the West Saxon in -an, as cwed-an=to say.
Since participles and infinitives are not really verbs, but verbals, they will be discussed later (Sec.
Explain whether the verbs and infinitives in the following sentences convey the right meaning; if not, change them to a better form:-- 1.
In addition to the above inflected forms, there are many periphrastic or compound forms, made up of auxiliaries with the infinitives and participles.
The obsolete infinitives in -en may also be found sometimes in the writings of the same and other early Modern English poets: in váyn: sáyen Sur.
Of Infinitives by the preposition to, in Rule 18th; (6.
When two or more infinitives are connected in the same construction, one preposition sometimes governs them both or all; a repetition of the particle not being always necessary, unless we mean to make the terms severally emphatical.
These are the only things in English, that can properly be said to be subject to government; and these are always so, in their own names; unless we except such infinitives as stand in the place of nominatives.
How does the French construction of participles and infinitives compare with the English?
Words utterly needless, and worse than needless, they foist into our language, in instances beyond number, to explain infinitives that occur at almost every breath.
What is said of certain infinitives supposed to be erroneously put for participles?
As the preposition is chiefly distinguished by its regimen, it is absurd to speak of it as governing nothing; yet it does not always govern the objective case, for participles and infinitives have no cases.
Here is a literal version, in which two infinitives are governed by the preposition between; and though such a construction is uncommon, I know not why it should be thought less accurate in the one language than in the other.
And if infinitives and other mere adjuncts may be the objects which make verbs transitive, how shall a transitive verb be known?
The first and the last of these three allegations do not appear to be well founded; and the second, if infinitives are verbs, indicates an excellence rather than a fault.
Usually two or more infinitives are combined, and infinitives are freely mixed with indicatives.
The nouns andinfinitives in this and the following lines are objects of =siente=, l.
In Old Spanish infinitives could be very loosely used.
Only last session the Minister of Education got a bill sent up to the Spiritual Chamber with three split infinitives in it.
That they are from nouns in -ung is otherwise, and almost for the same reasons, as incredible as that they are from infinitives in -an.
Participles and infinitives unite with other verbs to make compound forms; as, have walked, shall walk.
Improve these sentences by changing the participles into infinitives, and the infinitives into participles:-- 1.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infinitives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
