After taking up the perfect gerund in last week’s column, we’ll now take up the perfect infinitive. As with the perfect gerund, we must make clear in our mind that the qualifying word “perfect” in the ...
TWO important grammatical forms that I don’t recall having ever taken up in this column are the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund. I was asked about their usage sometime in 2011 but having ...
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An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...
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