Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to the infinitive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In grammar, of or belonging to the infinitive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the infinite mood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or formed from an
infinitive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or formed with the infinitive
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Examples
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Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.
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Zero-marking appears in some other places in English: the plural of sheep is sheep, and the conjugated verb eat in I eat fish is indistinguishable from the uninflected infinitival form in I want to eat fish.
Whoever v. Whomever! Cases collide! Match of the Century! « Motivated Grammar 2009
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For, let me just explain to new readers specialists on the English language are well aware of it, putting an adverb between to and its following verb in an infinitival clause is perfectly grammatical; it always has been throughout the history of English; and even quite conservative usage books agree on this.
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But it cannot succeed at all in explain - ing the internal constituency of the verb or noun phrase in general, nor the constituency of the simple sentence, nor the interconnection of sentences and clauses, or infinitival or participial clause-like construction.
STUDY OF LANGUAGE ALVAR ELLEG 1968
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The case studies investigated include the alternation between synthetic and analytic comparatives, between the s-genitive and the of-genitive, between gerundial and infinitival complementation, particle placement, and future marker choice in a number of corpora sampling different spoken registers and geographical varieties of English.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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Further to that, you surely don’t deny the grammaticality of “the only internet service providers to donate all their profits to charity”, as far as noun phrases with infinitival clauses go.
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To show you what I mean, remove ‘only’: it’s just “one of the internet providers to donate to charity” which is really fine English despite the slightly clumsy infinitival clause.
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The temporal being is the state of affairs designated by infinitival expressions like ˜being a man™ (˜hominem esse™) or ˜being white™ (˜esse album™) ” that is, the object of the act of judging.
Paul of Venice Conti, Alessandro 2005
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