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Infinitive phrases often have an implied grammatical subject making them effectively clauses rather than phrases. Such infinitive clauses or infinitival clauses, are one of several kinds of non-finite clause. They can play various grammatical roles like a constituent of a larger clause or sentence; for example it may form a noun phrase or ...
There is a perfect infinitive (to) have written and a perfect progressive infinitive (to) have been writing, and corresponding present participle/gerund forms having written and having been writing. A perfect subjunctive (have written) is also sometimes used. Future and conditional perfect forms are given below.
bare infinitive: I saw her come. her acts as object of saw and subject of come: impossible: not possible 3a. to-infinitive without subject: She remembered to come. notional subject 'understood' as identical to she: n.a. not possible 3b. to-infinitive with subject: I reminded her to come. her acts as object of reminded and subject of to come ...
The list that follows shows the base, or infinitive form, the past tense and the past participle of the verb. a- : for abide, arise, awake, see bide, rise, wake; be (am, is, are) – was, were – been; be- : for become, befall, beset, etc. see come, fall, set, etc. bear – bore – borne [spelt born in passive and adjectival uses relating to ...
Here's my proposed lead text: In grammar, the infinitive is a non-finite verb that exists in many languages; in English, the infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the preposition to: so, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives.
Slavic "gerunds" can be translated into English with -ing verbal forms, but those are not gerunds. For that reason, I removed my reference to R. Alexander's BCS grammar, as it could be misguiding, and there's the same sort of mistake in Wade's Russian grammar; the mistake is implicit in Sussex-Cubberley p.401-402.
The infinitive construct is generally preceded by a preposition (e.g. ב־, כ־, ל־, מ־, עד), usually the inseparable preposition ל־, meaning "to, for", although it can be used without a preposition. This article covers only infinitive construct with the preposition ל־. The passive binyans pu'al and huf'al do not have infinitives.
Another use of the article in Ancient Greek is with an infinitive, adjective, adverb, or a participle to make a noun, for example, τὸ ἀδικεῖν (tò adikeîn) "wrong-doing, doing wrong"; τὸ καλόν (tò kalón) "the beautiful, beauty"; τὰ γενόμενα (tà genómena) "the events, the things that happened"; οἱ ...