• the infinitive is the basic dictionary form of a verb when used non-finitely, with or without the particle to. Thus to go is an infinitive, as is go in...
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  • The Infinitive of Go is a 1980 science fiction novel by British writer John Brunner. The novel revolves around a teleportation technology which is being...
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  • traditionally called the "full infinitive", but is more commonly known in modern linguistics as the to-infinitive (e.g., to go). In the history of English language...
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  • (1976), Orbit (1977) The Infinitive of Go, Del Rey (1980), Magnum (1981) Players at the Game of People, Del Rey (1980) The Crucible of Time, Del Rey (1983)...
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  • go to the tennis court to help Jim to get some practice before the game. "Need" is used here as a catenative verb followed by the infinitive "to go"...
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  • accusative and infinitive (also Accusativus cum infinitivo or accusative plus infinitive, frequently abbreviated ACI or A+I) is the name for a syntactic...
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  • have the same pattern of inflections. Thus all those Latin verbs which in the present tense have 1st singular -ō, 2nd singular -ās, and infinitive -āre...
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  • n, then the final consonant is doubled before adding the infinitive -a or -ä. In the case of a stem ending in the consonant s, the infinitive ending gains...
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  • voice (for a general introduction in the grammatical formation and the morphology of the Ancient Greek infinitive see here and for further information...
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  • and function to the English infinitive introduced by the particle 'to'. The suffix of the first infinitive depends on the type of the verb stem. With...
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  • forms gerundive and present participle. In the earliest stages of the West Germanic languages, the infinitive was inflected after a preposition. These dative...
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    think you're about to go where... everyone has gone before." The split infinitive "to boldly go" has also been the subject of jokes regarding its grammatical...
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  • language, the German verb can be understood historically as a development of the Germanic verb. The bare infinitive consists of the root and the suffix -en...
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  • Modal verb (category Philosophy of language)
    Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used are can...
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    followed by the base infinitive of the main verb (compare with "ought to".) (An alternative description is that it uses the verb go in the progressive aspect...
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  • published in 1974 by Bantam Books in A Frederik Pohl Selection. Like in The Infinitive of Go, this novel revolves around a teleportation technology. Matter Transmission...
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  • perfect). The optative mood, infinitives and participles are found in four tenses (present, aorist, perfect, and future) and all three voices. The distinction...
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  • exceptions such as the use of the infinitive for verbs in some languages. For English, the citation form of a noun is the singular (and non-possessive) form:...
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    five different inflected forms: The base form or plain form (go, write, climb), which has several uses—as an infinitive, imperative, present subjunctive...
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  • Krio language (category Languages of the African diaspora)
    imperfective. Infinitive is marked by 'fòr' and conditional by a combination of 'bin' and 'go'. Tendency is marked by 'kin' and 'nòbar'. The verbal paradigm...
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  • ask for help' The accusative of the supine is also used to make the rare future passive infinitive, for example, captum īrī 'to be going to be captured'...
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  • verb except be, the preterite (simple past tense) of go is not etymologically related to its infinitive. Instead, the preterite of go, went, descends...
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    το να πάει κανείς "to go, the act of going", το να δεις / βλέπεις "to see/be seeing, the act of seeing" instead of the infinitive "βλέπειν", etc.) in Aromanian...
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  • go"). The synthetic future and conditional of verbs with one-syllable infinitives also sometimes occur (e.g. será/seria "it will/would be" or in the compound...
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  • with the compound infinitive of the main verb (as with the English is going to ...). English grammar provides a number of ways to indicate the future...
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  • If the infinitive has the affix um, remove the um and repeat the first syllable or first two letters of the root word. If the infinitive has the affixes...
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  • verb cannot perform action as the main verb of an independent clause. Nonfinite verbs include infinitives, participles and gerunds. Nonfinite verb forms...
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  • only two forms of gerunds, the choice depending upon the ending of the main verb in the infinitive: -ando for verbs whose infinitive ends in -are (parlare/parlando...
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  • has absolute infinitive forms like צעוד ṣaʻod ʻmarchingʼ, and two forms of construct infinitive: (a). inflected infinitive or infinitive preceded by a...
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  • going to do this"). The other is where the subject of the infinitive and the subject of the main verb are different. In this type, the subject of the...
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