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Or is there certain amount of words it has to be like for prep phrases?

Hi there. "I find cats annoying." I think the "annoying" bit is a reduced infinitive clause (i.e. the full clause would be: "to be annoying"). Is this right? My questions are: 1) are there any other verbs (other than "find") that can be followed by a reduced infinitive clause? 2)...

-- infinitive clause : a type of non-finite clause, with the verb in the infinitive. Infinitive clauses may or may not contain the infinitive marker to. A subject may or may not be present; the subject of an infinitive clause may be realized as a noun phrase or as a prepositional...

taka, are you familiar with this: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861719473 I meant infinitive clause, not infinite, sorry. Try to expand your imagination, but before that, learn some manners. Now I see I wrote the right way. Oce more,...

Mr-Taciturn wrote: Inchoateknowledge wrote: ''Stories to tell to children '' = stories (to tell = infinitive clause modifying 'stories') to children stories to children 't o ' does not hinge on the verb tell Then, we can say '' Stories (to tell) for children'' can't we ? ...

Inchoateknowledge wrote: ''Stories to tell to children '' = stories (to tell = infinitive clause modifying 'stories') to children stories to children 't o ' does not hinge on the verb tell Then, we can say '' Stories (to tell) for children'' can't we ?

Inchoateknowledge wrote: ''Stories to tell to children '' = stories (to tell = infinitive clause modifying 'stories') to children stories to children 't o ' does not hinge on the verb tell I really appreciate this approach. That's the point I think ,too Thanks Mr Incho.

''Stories to tell to children '' = stories (to tell = infinitive clause modifying 'stories') to children stories to children 't o ' does not hinge on the verb tell

J. R. R. Tolkien used to make up his own stories to tell to his children. No typo ''Stories to tell to children '' = stories (to tell = infinitive clause modifying 'stories') to children stories to children 't o ' does not hinge on the verb tell

As per your request, the following is an attempt to determine the word class & clause type of your sentence (1): S: He Vi: ran, turn Vt: empty Vd: Vf: Vc: Full infinitive: to see Bare infinitive: turn, empty Verb, sense: see Preposition: onto; of; in; to ...