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Petite Anglaise shares a mother's angst and Split Infinitive reflects on adult authority and the back of the bus.
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Petite Anglaise shares a mother's angst and Split Infinitive reflects on adult authority and the back of the bus.
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Infinitive just means untensed, as opposed to finite verbs, which have tense.
So maybe Chief Justice Roberts was instinctively editing and "improving" the wording of the constitutional oath. Ann Althouse 2009
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And in help it could be in simple form or in Infinitive. am i right?
Advanced English Grammar ESL Lesson – Causative « Esl Videos « Videos « Literacy News 2009
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Infinitive Splitter » A very interesting theory says:
Think Progress » 18 Families Bankroll Estate Tax Repeal Campaign 2006
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-- The +Infinitive+ phrase is used as an +adjective+, an +adverb+, and a
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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The Infinitive Mood may be used in the capacity of a noun either as
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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The Infinitive Mood preceded by _á_ may be used instead of the Finite
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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Imperative, Subjunctive, Optative, _ and _Infinitive_, to which may be added the _Participles_; they are mostly known by means of the _union-vowel_ -- that which immediately precedes the termination.
Greek in a Nutshell James Strong
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For the two forms of the verb called the +Infinitive+ and the +Participle+, see "Hints," Lessons 48 and 49.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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