alytical practical grammar - Toronto Public Library

SYNTAX-INFINITIVE, 187
866. The infinitive is n sort of veroal nOHU, nnd ha~ the const, uctioD of
hoth a verb and a noun.
367. As n !:oun, the infiniti \"e may be, 1. The sunjcel of It ved" (394) "
:t Q , " To play is pleaQnnt." 2. The object of a HIO (8112); a', "Boy" l"I'e
10 pia!]." ~,Thepredicaie ?lominatin' after a copulativp \"frh (7~Is); !Ie,
.' He is t" b" marl ietl." 4. In apposition wilh allotht-r lIC>lln (G70); !l8,
"Spare, spare your fricnus the task, 10 r(ll'!, to nod, to seoJf, condemn."
:i. The object of a preposil:ulI {819); as, .... 11"'1/1 to depa.rt "-" Wh It wellt
ye out for to 'cc 1"
868. At tl,,· same time that tbe infilliti,'e i, u,d as n no:!", it may k11'e
an the modifications of a v(·rb in I'CSP' ct to time, ~·ol'crllmcllt. ('I' adjuncts,
forming, with them, an al,ridl(ed pentcnel\ 01" cla,,,,, or pi"",.,
(t~',3), as, "To f'ee tlte Htn at nddnight is impos,ii,le." H(ol'(', 10 Sl'C is
modified loy its (,hj.. and
the infinitive remains aftcr it,like tbe indirect objcct (811), TllU',. 'lctit'c,
" I de3ircd him to go."-Passive. " He was desired to go."