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:

She understood the meaning of ban; she had apparently heard its inflected past tense form; but the infinitive and the present tense forms were unknown to her.
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.
When the maître d' brought it over, I nearly split an infinitive: the syntax alone was astronomical!
These are: prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, infinitive phrase, adverb clause, adjective clause, and noun clause.
Here Bruce's Brilliant excision of one word is accomplished in his second phrase, the infinitive, in which he lifts out the to : “Helping [to] win by scoring.