Verbals: Infinitives Mastery

It is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs.

• Infinitive

• Infinitive verb

• Infinitive adjective

• Infinitive noun

It is the infinitive form of a verb plus any complements and modifiers.

• Infinitive phrase

• Infinitive verb

• Infinitive adjective

• Infinitive noun

 It is a word formed from a verb but functioning as a different part of speech.

• Infinitive phrase

• Non-verbal

• Verbal

• Infinitive noun

These are verbals formed by joining the preposition to and an action verb.

• Conditionals

• Infinitives

• Verbals

• Appositives

These can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.

• Conditionals

• Predicates

• Infinitive phrases

• Appositives

TRUE/FALSE: An infinitive is a non-finite verb. Hence it cannot be the main verb in a sentence. It almost always begins with to.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: An infinitive used as an adjective usually appears immediately before the noun it modifies.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: An infinitive used as an adjective usually appears immediately before the noun it modifies.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: When a main clause is introduced by an infinitive phrase, the two sentence components are separated by an exclamation point.

• TRUE

• FALSE

TRUE/FALSE: When a main clause is concluded by an infinitive phrase, you need no punctuation to connect two sentence parts.

• TRUE

• FALSE