Infinitives are verbals, which are verbs functioning in a different way. Infinitives function as nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. As you must know by now, infinitives are often easily recognized by their characteristic pattern: TO + (SIMPLE FORM OF VERB) This last section, however, is tricky! These infinitives have no TO! The new pattern looks like this: SPECIAL VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + INFINITIVE - TO Special Verbs include: feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch Good luck! Please copy the following sentences down in your grammar notebook. Use the system to label the parts of speech and word functions. Recommended Order (NOT left to right)
(Copy the sentence and label on your own first; scroll over to see the answers). Test Sentences (Copy the sentence and label on your own first; check with peers and teacher; due the class prior to the quiz; you may check with me before the due date to get advice)
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