20 - 1001 Questions and Answers on English Grammar - Infinitives

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

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One to err as human, 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

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leave to go. Two A structure soon 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

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went to see the show. Two the gods 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,

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is the sign of each expressed. It is often omitted
before all except the 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,

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rather than he advised me to not go. 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

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person and number? Nine? How is an infinitive parted 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 named the verb. Two give its

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classes regularity and transivity. Three give principal parts, four give voice,
mode and tense. Five name its construction. Six give two rules,
one for construction and the other for relation or agreement.

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Eleven parts. An infinitive subject of a verb to do
justice is acceptable? To do is a verb irregular, transitive, active,
infinitive present construction of a noun in the subject with
is acceptable rules twelve parts. An infinitive in the predicate

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my hope is to succeed. To succeed is a verb regular, intransitive, active,
infinitive present construction of a noun in the predicate after
the verb is referring to the same thing as its
subject hope. Rule thirteen parts. An infinitive object of a

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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
An infinitive object of a preposition. My friend is about
to take his departure to take is a verb, et

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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
cetera construction of an adjective limiting desire. Rules sixteen pars

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An infinitive modifying a verb, I came not here to
talk to talk as a verb, et cetera construction of
an adverb modifying kame. Rule seventeen. Pars An infinitive modifying
and n adjective he is too lazy to study, to

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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
a verb, et cetera construction of an adverb modifying enough.

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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
noun in apposition with intention. Rules twenty are infinitives capable

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of being used as nouns in all cases, in all
except the possessive in the section twenty.