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Re: Please help me with infinitive clause

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:52:11 GMT

Grammar is a descriptive process. Linguists look at a language and describe how it works.
However some Linguists describe things differently to others. The end result is usually the same, but the way they organise it, and what all the parts are call varies.
eg some Linguists say pronouns are a type of noun, some treat nouns and pronouns as different parts of speech. But both systems work out the same in the end.
However, having several different grammars is however confusing for all the rest of us!!!

An infinitive clause is the same as an infinitive phrase, however different systems of grammar are being used.
In the first clause contain any type of verb, in the second they contain a finite verb (not infinitive)

Infinitives (clauses or phrases - as you link)
Gerunds (clauses or phrases)
and
participle (clauses or phrases)
are all phrases that contain a verb.
They are clauses in some grammars and not in others.
My personal preference is to regard all phrases with a verb as a clause.
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Gerund phrase Getting the promotion is my only hope.

Infinitive phrase I wanted to leave.

Participle phrase Flying high in the air, the rocket exploded.

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The Infinitive comes in two froms, the to-infinitive shown above and the bare infinitive.
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bare infinitive. All I did was touch it

Please help me with infinitive clause

Ritthy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 04:45:18 GMT

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 fonction( noun or adjective ) when it is playing role as objective complement?

Example: you make me cry. so cry here functions as what?

Thank you very much

good luck!

Re: Clause elements

Buddhaheart — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:57:57 GMT

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: the

Article, indefinite: a

Noun, common: balcony, flat, apartment, Complex, man, clip, direction, guard.

Pronoun, genetive: his

Noun, possessive: Osloâs, Docklandâs(?)

Adjective: exclusive, apartment, .375, chasing

Gerund: chasing

Noun, proper: Docklands(?), Magnum

Conjunction: and

DO: the balcony of his flat in Osloâs exclusive Docklandâs apartment Complex; the clip of a .375 Magnum

IO:

SC:

OC:

ACl: in Osloâs exclusive Docklandâs apartment Complex

AdvCl: to see a man turn ...; in the direction of a chasing guard

Please note Iâm not sure about the infinitive clause "to see a man ..." If the guy ran onto the balcony in order to see the man ..." then itâs infinitive clause functioning as an adverb clause. The subclause "turn and empty ..." is another infinitive clause with "man" as the grammatical subject, and "clip" the object.

The following is the clause breakdown for sentence (2):

Main clause: I was... Mr. Astley

AdvC of reason: as I am convinced ...

Noun clause: he is in love with Polina

Re: To + verb ing but why here ?

paco2004 — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:06:13 GMT

Hello Guys

Thought 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 commitment) [= DO] (to improve skills) [Adv]". That is, the infinitive clause works as a purpose adverbial. On the other hand, the original sentence is "He welcomed (their commitment to improving skills) [= DO]. That is, "their commitment to improving skills" as a whole works as a noun phrase. Because of the different structures, the two sentences have different meanings.

(2) "X's commitment to Y (a noun)" is a nominalized form of a sentence "X commits oneself to Y". Because the verb "commit" is followed by a "to + a noun" phrase, the de-verbal noun "commitment" also takes a "to + a noun" phrase as its complement (post-modifier). We can make similar analyses to "dedication to a noun", "devotion to a noun", etc..

paco

Infinitive clause

jamal — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:23:59 GMT

I have read some books introducing the following sentences as infinitive clause.

You must book early [to secure a seat]

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 infinitive, participles, gerund)
The sentence is:

Am I wrong in understanding clauses or is there something advance I have not been able to cover.