By Gerunds, Infinitive clauses

Dear everybody! I am a Cambodian student in year two; I would like you to explain me about these: 1/ Please differentiate about: - Infinitive clause and infinitive phrase - Participle clause and infinitive phrase -Gerund clause and gerund phrase 2/ Would you tell what does infinitive...

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 Article, definite:...

Hello GuysThought Professor KM's replies are superb, I'd like to add two things. (1) I answered to MaX as above because MaX asked why it is a gerund. However, I think we might say also "He welcomed their commitment to improve skills". In this case we can parse it as "He welcomed (their...

I have read some books introducing the following sentences as infinitive clause. You must book early As far as my understanding, a clause contains a finite verb(verbs showing tense, person or singular \ plural. not a non-finite verb(verbs having no tense, person or singular \ plural as...