Infinitives

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Section twenty of one thousand one Questions and Answers on
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thousand one Questions and Answers on English Grammar by Benjamin Hathaway.

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Infinitives One, What is the rule for infinitives? Infinitives have
the construction of nouns, adjectives or adverbs. Two. Give five
sentences containing infinitives used as nouns. One to err as human,

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two his aim is to excel. Three children love to play. Four.
To break a promise is dishonorable. Five. I desire to
hear her. Three. Give five sentences containing infinitives used as adjectives.
One he had leave to go. Two A structure soon

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to fall. Three the army had orders to march. Four
flee from the wrath to come. Five. Have a desire
to improve? Four Give five sentences containing infinitives used as adverbs.
One he went to see the show. Two the gods

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are hard to reconcile. Three I shall not stop to
assist you. Four the man waited to state his case. Five,
we were anxious to see you. Five. When several infinitives
come together, is the sign of each expressed? It is

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often omitted before all except the four first, as he
came to see, hear, and learn for himself. Six should
another word ever be come between the infinitive and its sign?
Nothing should ever come between them. As he advised me
not to go, rather than he advised me to not go.

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Seven correct the following. I never cheated a man, and
I never intend to intend to do so. The sign, too,
should never be used for the infinitive. Eight. How does
the infinitive differ in its modifications from other verbs? It
lacks person and number? Nine? How is an infinitive parted

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first as a verb and then its construction of some
other part of speech? Is given? Ten. Give the program
for parsing an infinitive. One name verb. Two give its
classes regularity and transivity. Three give principal parts. Four give voice,

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mode and tense. Five name its construction. Six give two rules,
one for construction and the other for relation or agreement.
Eleven parts. An infinitive subject of a verb. To do
justice is acceptable. To do is a verb irregular, transitive, active,

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infinitive present construction of a noun in the subject with
is acceptable. Rules twelve parts. An infinitive in the predicate
my hope is to succeed. To succeed is a verb regular, intransitive, active,
infinitive present construction of a noun in the predicate after

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the verb is referring to the same thing as its
subject hope. Rule thirteen pars An infinitive object of a
verb one must begin to love somewhere and to do
good somewhere to love is a verb et cetera construction
of a noun object of must begin. Rules fourteen pars

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An infinitive object of a preposition. My friend is about
to take his departure to take is a verb et
cetera construction of a noun object of the preposition about.
Rule fifteen pars An infinitive used as an adjective, have
a desire to improve? To improve as a verb et

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cetera construction of an adjective limiting desire. Rules sixteen pars.
An infinitive modifying a verb, I came not here to
talk to talk as a ver verb et cetera construction
of an adverb modifying kame rule seventeen pars An infinitive

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modifying and adjective. He is too lazy to study, to
study as a verb, et cetera. Construction of an adverb
modifying lazy Rules eighteen pars An infinitive modifying an adverb,
she's old enough to go to school, to go as

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a verb, et cetera construction of an adverb modifying enough.
Rules nineteen pars An infinitive used as a noun in apposition.
This is my intention to practice economy to practice is
a verb regular transitive, active, infinitive present. Construction of a

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noun in apposition with intention. Rules twenty are infinitives capable
of being used as nouns in all cases, in all
except the possessive end the section twenty