Sentences with infinitive
in·fin·i·tive
I i - An infinitive phrase
- An infinitive construction.
- 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.
- We typically identify powers with a certain standard locution, employing the infinitives of verbs along with verb phrases.
- Participles dangle, metaphors are not only extended but mixed, infinitives are split and ambiguous pronouns abound.
- The silly rule about not splitting infinitives often creates unnecessary ambiguities.
- 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.
- Will roughening our cadences and splitting our infinitives establish our distance from our colonial history?
- He has banned infinitives as well as tensed verbs entirely from his writing, but he does exempt past participles from his linguistic Nuremberg Laws.
- Some infinitives seem to improve on being split, just as a stick of round stovewood does.
- And the use of the infinitive for coming events is so common we hardly blink.
- 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.
- 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.