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to-infinitive

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to-infinitive (pluralto-infinitives)

(grammar) The Englishinfinitive verb form when introduced by theparticleto.
- 2005,Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, inThe Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press,→ISBN,page 4:
  As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of theto-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of theto-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that theto-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive withoutto, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).

uninflected verb form