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to-infinitives

to-infinitives is the plural of to-infinitive.

Meaning of to-infinitive

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

Questions about to-infinitives

What is to-infinitives the plural of?
To-infinitives is the plural of to-infinitive.

Words near to-infinitives in the dictionary

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

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