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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In English, the infinitive without to, as used with modal auxiliary verbs. In the sentence I must go to the store now, the verb go is a bare infinitive.
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- noun The
infinitive form of a verb, without theparticle to .
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