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• The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.From the entry defective verb
• The formulation with the bare infinitive was somewhat less common.From the entry formulation
• "I bought a pen and some paper to write a note" is an example of an infinitive of purpose.From the entry infinitive of purpose
• The ban on splitting infinitives is fuddy-duddery, pure and simple.From the entry fuddy-duddery
• In English, to is the infinitive marker.From the entry infinitive marker
• The perfect infinitive of "go" is "(to) have gone".From the entry perfect infinitive
• The dictionary form of the verb is the infinitive in English, the first-person singular present indicative in Ancient Greek, and the third-person masculine singular perfect in Semitic languages.From the entry dictionary form
• Just as many catenatives are followed by the infinitive, so others take the gerund.2010, Peter Fenn, A Student's Advanced Grammar of English (SAGE), page 492. From the entry catenative
• Unlike periphrastics, however, catenatives combine certain verbs (e.g., impersonal δεῖ) with an infinitive.2010, Stanley E. Porter, Jeffrey T. Reed, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek, page 351. From the entry catenative
• An epexegetical infinitive is an infinitive which depends on and limits an adjective.1974, Floyd L. Moreland, Rita M. Fleischer, Latin: An Intensive Course, University of California Press, page 12. From the entry epexegetical
• There has been the war against split infinitives, over-capitalization, under-punctuation, spelling errors, and misplaced modifiers.1970 October 25, Art Christen, “Offbeat”, in Springfield News-Sun, volume 43, number 16, Springfield, Ohio, page 4 B. From the entry under-punctuation
• Now if you’re one of them prescriptivists, I’m gonna free you of five nonrules: Nonrule 1: Never split infinitives.2023, Stephen Wilbers, Persuasive Communication for Science and Technology Leaders: Writing and Speaking with Confidence, John Wiley &…. From the entry nonrule
• Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272. From the entry inessive
• Such fetishes as insisting on It's I, not ending sentences with prepositions, and avoiding split infinitives are all dismissed as the nonsense they are.2001, R[obert] L[awrence] Trask, “Introduction”, in Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English (Penguin Reference…. From the entry split infinitive
• After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.1998, John A. Barnett, “Out Publicly: The Professional and Personal of Gay Public Librarianship”, in James V[inson] Carmichael, Jr.…. From the entry feng shui
• Eliot and Gertrude Stein had a solemn conversation, mostly about split infinitives and other grammatical solecisms and why Gertrude Stein used them.1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas. From the entry solecism
• They are, in fact, equivalent to the infinitive which some languages substantify directly (das Rennen, das Sprechen, le manger, le boire, le dormir).1913, Arnold Ruge, Wilhelm Windelband, Josiah Royce, Logic - Volume 1, page 194. From the entry substantify
• I was told specifically that they were going to undertranslate differences between, say, present and aorist infinitives, because there was no agreement on how to handle the differences.2019, David R. Miller, Greek Pedagogy in Crisis: A Pedagogical Analysis and Assessment of New Testament Greek in Twenty-First-Century…. From the entry undertranslate
• Based on the syntactic roles of the verbal collocatives in Russian, we divide their morphoparadigms into the grammemes of participles, gerunds, and personal forms plus infinitives.2004, Igor A. Bolshakov, “Getting One's First Million... Collocations”, in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 5th…. From the entry morphoparadigm

Meaning of infinitive

1. noun The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
2. noun A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
3. noun A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.

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Questions about infinitive in a sentence

How do you use infinitive in a sentence?

Infinitive is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “The verb can is defective in most English dialects, as it lacks an infinitive.”

What is a short sentence with infinitive?

“In English, to is the infinitive marker.”

What does infinitive mean?

Infinitive means the infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).