Words similar to infinitive

Example sentences for: infinitive

How can you use “infinitive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Tonight's nutty bloopers: A.G. coughs for several consecutive seconds, effectively splitting an infinitive; mistakenly addresses Senate Finance Committee member Don Nickles, R-Okla., as "congressman"; projects only 1.9 percent GDP growth for Calendar 1996.
When the maître d' brought it over, I nearly split an infinitive: the syntax alone was astronomical!
"Can you give examples of a direct object in an infinitive phrase?"
In the KLM pilot's case, what linguists call the present progressive aspect, which is expressed in English by a verb's -ing form, can be expressed in Dutch by the equivalent of at plus the verb's infinitive.
A letter writer once accused The [Toronto] Globe and Mail , Canada's newspaper of record, of setting a new record for splitting an infinitive.