What is the infinitive phrase in the sentence?
"He tried his best to hide the fact that he was scared." A. "to hide" B. "his best" C. "he tried" D. "he was"
What is the infinitive phrase in these sentences?
Did you have a chance to meet my friend? Next time, he said he would remember to buy some tapes to record the songs. I want to bake cookies this afternoon. "To be, or not to be; that is the question."
What is an infinitive phrase? Can you please give me a sentence example?
to + a verb..... example....to kill a mockingbird.... Jack and Jill went up the hill....to fetch a pail of water.....
The function of an infinitive phrase?
What's the difference between an infinitive phrase and a participle phrase, except for the tense? When it functions as an adverb, how can i recognize whether it refers to the verb or the whole sentence?
Do the brackets in this sentence contain an infinitive phrase? ‘Alice did not think that it was so very much out of the way [to hear the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”]’.
Yes, “to hear” is an infinitive phase as it contains the particle “to” the base verb “hear”. There is also other words following “to hear” which are “the Rabbit say to itself”. “Rabbit” is the object of infinitive, and “say to itself” is actually known as a bare infinitive which modifies “Rabbit”. Bare infinitives do not need the particle “to” but still act as infinitive.Bare infinitive can only happen after some verbs.As you can see hear is on the list.Here are some sentences containing bare infinitives:“I saw you eat the cake.”“I let you see me hear you make her smell flowers.” is a sentence containing multiple bare infinitives.The first row is debatable. I personally think that the modal verbs are helping verbs, not actually the only predicate.In a sense, there are actually two infinitive phrases.