noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
split infinitive
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
split
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Star Trek is the series made split infinitives famous.
■ VERB
express
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It was the conjugation of verbs that he found most difficult; he expressed everything in infinitives .
use
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And if to is completely meaningless when used with the infinitive , why isn't it tending to disappear completely?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bare infinitive
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And yet the bare infinitive has been chosen by the speaker.
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As for the grammatical meaning of the bare infinitive, the following remarks can be made.
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The bare infinitive would blunt the sharp edge of this expressive effect.
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The extremely rare use of the bare infinitive with the passive of perceptual verbs adds further proof that this is the case.
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There are fewer contexts where only the bare infinitive seems appropriate.
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There is an obvious parallel, therefore, between the bare infinitive's use in exclamations and that after need and dare.
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These sentences support Erades's and Wood's intuitions about the meaning of the bare infinitive construction.
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This explains why the bare infinitive would not be possible in this context.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bolinger does not mention it, but the opposite is also true: exclusively perceptual verbs refuse the to infinitive .
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Given this shift, the appearance of to before the infinitive is not surprising.
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In some of its uses, the to infinitive evokes an event as non-realized or yet to be realized.
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Independently of any other verb, the bare infinitive here expresses an event as a possibility, a rejected possibility.
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The distinction between these two ways of conceiving permission accounts for the use of either the bare or the to infinitive here.
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The view of to proposed here allows one, furthermore, to account for the two major uses of the to infinitive .