"Infinitive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the National Parks association is "to fearlessly defend the national parks and monuments against assaults of private interests." May we not hope that the w. k. infinitive ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... passage is obscure. Here suhuru is taken as a loan-word from sugur kimmatu, hair of the head. The infinitive II1 ...
— The Epic of Gilgamish - A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform • Stephen Langdon
... volvio a reirse, laughed again. Volver a, followed by an infinitive, is to be rendered as a formula of repetition, as, again, ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... very fertile source of doubt is the fact that Hebrew verbs in the indicative mood lack the present, the past imperfect, the pluperfect, the future perfect, and other tenses most frequently employed in other languages; in the imperative and infinitive moods they are wanting in all except the present, and a subjunctive mood does not exist. (104) Now, although all these defects in moods and tenses may be supplied by certain fundamental rules of the language with ease and even elegance, the ancient writers ...
— A Theologico-Political Treatise [Part II] • Benedict de Spinoza
... multiplicity of all its forms: e.g. each verb having not only active, middle, and passive voices, but the primitive active having not less than thirty-five derivative forms and the passive thirteen. The "noun of action,"—infinitive with article (to akonein) of the Greek—is again different for each voice or form; and the primitive can take any of twenty-two forms, which are not compounded according to any rule. Again, there are twenty-eight sets of irregular plurals, which ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... of any connection being kept up between the two nations.' 'The men rowed vigorously for fear of the tide turning against us.' But most examples of the construction without the possessive form are OBVIOUSLY DUE TO MERE SLOVENLINESS.... 'In case of your being absent': here being is an infinitive [verbal, or participial, noun] qualified by the possessive your. 'In case of you being present': here being would have to be construed as a participle. The possessive construction is, in this case, the primitive and regular construction; ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... comp. l. 623. The simple infinitive is here used without to where to would now be inserted. This omission of the preposition now occurs with so few verbs that 'to' is often called the sign of the infinitive, but in Early English the only sign of the infinitive was the termination en (e.g. he can speken). ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... that way because Scandinavian grammar is not a strong point with me, and my knowledge of the verbs is as yet limited to the present tense of the infinitive mood. Besides, this was no time to ...
— Diary of a Pilgrimage • Jerome K. Jerome
... The infinitive of a verb of motion, as {gehen} or {reisen}, being implied, an idiom often met with after the modal auxiliaries {mssen, knnen, sollen, wollen, drfen}, ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... superintendent of public instruction in Illinois, whom he called "Mr. Schoolmaster" (and who was years after my own beloved schoolmaster) saying: "I am not very strong on grammar and I wish you would see if it is all right." The schoolmaster had only to repair what we call a "split infinitive." But the great utterances of his life had no tuition or revision of schoolmasters. They were his own in conception and expression. He sent his Cooper Union speech in advance to several for advice, and they, I am told, changed ...
— The French in the Heart of America • John Finley |
