infinitive
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All other Greek dialects known today have stopped using the infinitive found in ancient Greek.
From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024
The NI Civil Service did remove the split infinitive of "to boldly go", replacing it with a more grammatically correct version.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022
Correct French would not have used the infinitive “tuer,” but rather the past participle, ending with an “e” to agree with the female writer, Ms. Marchal.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2021
His father had strong views about ending a sentence with a preposition and thought it a “heinous sin” to split an infinitive.
From Washington Post • May 29, 2019
Finally, in many cases a quantifier naturally floats leftward away from the verb, unsplitting the infinitive, as in the examples on the right: It seems monstrous to even suggest the possibility.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing infinitive
Parts of Speech - Middle School
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Parts of Speech - High School
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