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Definition of infinitive in English: infinitivenoun ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪvɪnˈfɪnədɪv The basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense (e.g. see in we came to see, let him see). Example sentencesExamples - I wonder why this bit of ignorant grammatical pontificating never caught on, while the equally ill-founded prescription against splitting infinitives did?
- There's no logical or grammatical reason to forbid splitting infinitives, and sometimes it's even obligatory, as Arnold Zwicky and Geoff Nunberg pointed out here last spring.
- The silly rule about not splitting infinitives often creates unnecessary ambiguities.
- And the use of the infinitive for coming events is so common we hardly blink.
- He has banned infinitives as well as tensed verbs entirely from his writing, but he does exempt past participles from his linguistic Nuremberg Laws.
- The verb of the infinitive (in this case go) is usually preceded by the word to.
- Instead, there is the contrast between infinitives introduced by the prepositions à and de.
- But the classicists decided we needed to have a rule, so we have one: it is wrong to split the infinitive.
- Participles dangle, metaphors are not only extended but mixed, infinitives are split and ambiguous pronouns abound.
- Do you split your infinitives or make other grammatical ‘errors’?
- Maybe it matters not a whit whether I strangle indecently my infinitives, or whether I split them decently with care.
- Will roughening our cadences and splitting our infinitives establish our distance from our colonial history?
- Thus, if a language has long-distance reflexivization with indicatives, then it will necessarily have it with (if relevant) subjunctives, infinitives, small clauses, and NPs.
- To highlight the continuous movement of his imaginative figures, Valery uses infinitives.
- We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases.
- Also, he's not above splitting an infinitive, but what can you do?
- Some infinitives seem to improve on being split, just as a stick of round stovewood does.
- I was good at history and liked literature, especially Conrad because he split all his infinitives and I thought it a much cooler way of writing.
- Rewrite sentences in the active voice. Recast sentences that have more than five prepositions and infinitives.
- Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
adjective ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪvɪnˈfɪnədɪv Having or involving the basic form of a verb. Example sentencesExamples - Deleuze's ‘pure event’ subsists in language as infinitive verbs, to die, to diet, etc. and is actualised by a ‘conceptual personae’ as a ‘concept’.
- To make my job easier, I marked only finite subordinate clauses, not infinitive clauses or nominalizations of various sorts, and not main clauses strung together by coordinators like ‘and’ and ‘but’.
- In such instances, finite and infinitive clauses are commonly postposed and anticipatory it takes their place in subject position: ‘It is obvious that nobody understands me’; ‘It was a serious mistake to accuse them of negligence.’
- The figures used in Tables 4, 6 and 7, where I aim to follow Foster as closely as my textbase allows, therefore include infinitive uses.
- Thus, it is possible that these words are learned in their infinitive form, and this form is applied to every form of the verb, even if the inflection requires the use of a different grapheme.
- ‘To ignore’: the infinitive verbal root of the word, ‘ignorance’, is, obviously, a greater defect of the human mind than the basest stupidity.
- Still a third example involves the semantics of perceptual reports with naked infinitive complements, as in ‘John saw Mary cry’, which is analyzed as ‘John saw an event which was a crying by Mary’.
- Note that ‘to spy’ is always an irregular verb, only the third person form resembles the infinitive.
Derivatives adjective ˌɪnfɪnɪˈtʌɪv(ə)lˌɪnfɪnəˈtaɪvəl Grammar Denoting or involving the basic infinitive form of a verb. Example sentencesExamples - an infinitival clause
- Shed would be encountered as a plain form (in infinitival clauses), as a plain present (used when the subject is not 3rd singular), as a past participle, and as a preterite.
- Far from being ungrammatical, split infinitives are (as we have explained before on Language Log) always an option for modifiers of infinitival clauses, and sometimes the only option.
- It's stated as rhetorical advice, but the examples slide into some very dubious syntax, in particular a coordination of nominal gerunds with an infinitival VP.
adverbɪnˌfɪnɪˈtʌɪv(ə)liˌɪnfɪnɪˈtʌɪv(ə)li Grammar The frequency and statistical likelihood of real-world usage patterns is responsible for the hierarchical sequence in which specific adverbial notions come to be expressed infinitivally.
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin infinitivus, from infinitus (see infinite). The noun dates from the mid 16th century. Definition of infinitive in US English: infinitivenouninˈfinədivɪnˈfɪnədɪv The basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense (e.g. see in we came to see, let him see). Example sentencesExamples - Do you split your infinitives or make other grammatical ‘errors’?
- I was good at history and liked literature, especially Conrad because he split all his infinitives and I thought it a much cooler way of writing.
- He has banned infinitives as well as tensed verbs entirely from his writing, but he does exempt past participles from his linguistic Nuremberg Laws.
- I wonder why this bit of ignorant grammatical pontificating never caught on, while the equally ill-founded prescription against splitting infinitives did?
- There's no logical or grammatical reason to forbid splitting infinitives, and sometimes it's even obligatory, as Arnold Zwicky and Geoff Nunberg pointed out here last spring.
- Thus, if a language has long-distance reflexivization with indicatives, then it will necessarily have it with (if relevant) subjunctives, infinitives, small clauses, and NPs.
- And the use of the infinitive for coming events is so common we hardly blink.
- But the classicists decided we needed to have a rule, so we have one: it is wrong to split the infinitive.
- The verb of the infinitive (in this case go) is usually preceded by the word to.
- The silly rule about not splitting infinitives often creates unnecessary ambiguities.
- Also, he's not above splitting an infinitive, but what can you do?
- To highlight the continuous movement of his imaginative figures, Valery uses infinitives.
- Instead, there is the contrast between infinitives introduced by the prepositions à and de.
- Among other particular features of Albanian and other Balkan languages are a postpositive definite article and the absence of a verbal infinitive.
- We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases.
- Some infinitives seem to improve on being split, just as a stick of round stovewood does.
- Rewrite sentences in the active voice. Recast sentences that have more than five prepositions and infinitives.
- Participles dangle, metaphors are not only extended but mixed, infinitives are split and ambiguous pronouns abound.
- Maybe it matters not a whit whether I strangle indecently my infinitives, or whether I split them decently with care.
- Will roughening our cadences and splitting our infinitives establish our distance from our colonial history?
adjectiveinˈfinədivɪnˈfɪnədɪv Having or involving an infinitive form. Example sentencesExamples - Still a third example involves the semantics of perceptual reports with naked infinitive complements, as in ‘John saw Mary cry’, which is analyzed as ‘John saw an event which was a crying by Mary’.
- Note that ‘to spy’ is always an irregular verb, only the third person form resembles the infinitive.
- In such instances, finite and infinitive clauses are commonly postposed and anticipatory it takes their place in subject position: ‘It is obvious that nobody understands me’; ‘It was a serious mistake to accuse them of negligence.’
- ‘To ignore’: the infinitive verbal root of the word, ‘ignorance’, is, obviously, a greater defect of the human mind than the basest stupidity.
- Thus, it is possible that these words are learned in their infinitive form, and this form is applied to every form of the verb, even if the inflection requires the use of a different grapheme.
- Deleuze's ‘pure event’ subsists in language as infinitive verbs, to die, to diet, etc. and is actualised by a ‘conceptual personae’ as a ‘concept’.
- To make my job easier, I marked only finite subordinate clauses, not infinitive clauses or nominalizations of various sorts, and not main clauses strung together by coordinators like ‘and’ and ‘but’.
- The figures used in Tables 4, 6 and 7, where I aim to follow Foster as closely as my textbase allows, therefore include infinitive uses.
Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin infinitivus, from infinitus (see infinite). The noun dates from the mid 16th century. |