The Infinitive // English Grammar Lessons

In this lesson we'll discuss the Infinitive. We'll see what types of infinitives there are in English, what their formulas are, what roles they can play in a sentence - in short, everything you need to know about these verbals.

00:00 Introduction
00:44 The Infinitive: Main Points
01:33 Nominal Characteristics of the Infinitive
03:50 Verbal Characteristics of the Infinitive
05:53 Forms of the infinitive
08:51 Simple Infinitive
09:41 Progressive Infinitive
11:02 Perfect Infinitive
14:12 Perfect-Progressive Infinitive
15:37 Voice of the Infinitive
17:17 'Bare' and Full Infinitives
18:31 When do we use the 'Bare' Infinitive?
27:50 'To' without the Infinitive
28:57 The Split Infinitive
33:01 The Functions of the infinitive in a Sentence
33:28 The Infinitive as a Subject
34:58 The Infinitive as a Predicative
38:47 The Infinitive in Compound Verbal Predicates
41:43 The Infinitive as an Object
44:03 The Infinitive in Complex Objects
45:19 The Infinitive as an Attribute
46:28 The Infinitive as an Adverbial Modifier
55:42 The Infinitive as Parenthesis

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