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.
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.
Aimer then serves, in the imperfect subjunctive, as the auxiliary verb and is followed by jumbo frankfurter , which is of course an 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.
A carelessness about inflection in Pepys's day is shown above with the examples of the objective I and who . Rarer back then was the use of whole phrases as single words as, for instance: to quickly and efficiently do this job, where the verb and two adverbs are treated together as a so-called split infinitive marked by to, instead of the prescribed to do this job quickly and efficiently, where only do is the infinitive marked as such by to and modified by two adverbs.