Language is full of Patterns 2nd Grade

verb + to + infinitive

• hate missing

• can’t afford to buy

• help you to get

• let you go

verb + –ing

• can’t afford to buy

• let you go

• help you to get

• hate missing

verb + object + to + infinitive

• can’t afford to buy

• help you to get

• hate missing

• let you go

verb + object + bare infinitive

• hate missing

• help you to get

• let you go

• can’t afford to buy

preposition + –ing

• Good at making up

• Being the youngest chi

• Permission to do

• Afraid to ask

as a subject

• Good at making up

• Permission to do

• Being the youngest child

noun + to + infinitive

• Being the youngest child

• Permission to do

• Hard to believe

• Leave to go

adjective + to + infinitive

• Afraid to ask

• Good at making up

• Permission to do

• leave to go

infinitive of purpose

• Leave to go

• Good at making up

• Hard to believe

• Permission to do