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infinitive
Part of speech: AdjectiveWithout limitation of person or number; applied to that verb form which simply expresses the general sense of the verb.
Part of speech: NounThe infinitive verb form; as, to sing.
Usage examples "infinitive":- That, when actions are spoken of thus indefinitely, the idea of either person or number has no place in the conception; from which it follows that the so- called infinitive mood must be at once impersonal, and without the distinction of singular, dual, and plural. - "The English Language", Robert Gordon Latham.
- Because be made is passive; and passive verbs do not take the infinitive after them without the preposition to. - "The Grammar of English Grammars", Goold Brown.
- I made my fifty words express everything I had to say, and to simplify matters only used the verbs in the infinitive and nouns in the nominative. - "By Desert Ways to Baghdad", Louisa Jebb.