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to-infinitive

to-infinitive noun: the English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.

Noun

to-infinitive (plural to-infinitives)

  1. The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
    • As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to-infinitive in OE is PP; and...2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4
    Synonyms:
    full infinitive, marked infinitive

Synonyms of to-infinitive

Forms of to-infinitive

pluralto-infinitives

Questions about to-infinitive

What does to-infinitive mean?
To-infinitive means the English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to.
What part of speech is to-infinitive?
To-infinitive is a noun.
What is the plural of to-infinitive?
The plural of to-infinitive is to-infinitives.

Words near to-infinitive in the dictionary

  1. to-dos
  2. to-draw
  3. to-draws
  4. to-fall
  5. to-heap
  6. to-infinitive
  7. to-infinitives
  8. to-morrow
  9. to-morrows
  10. to-name
  11. to-named

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