The active verbs, bid, dare, feel, hear, let, make, need, see, and their participles, usually take the Infinitive after them without the preposition TO.

"'Literary'I remember your stopping Captain Jones's leave for a split infinitive in a ration return.

If we suppose it to be a "part of the infinitive," or a "part of the verb," it is certainly no necessary part of either; because there is no verb which may not, in several different ways, be properly used in the infinitive without it.

Active infinitive with faire, laisser, entendre, and voir.

Sentences (inflect forms if necessary; for example, use the past tense, participle, or infinitive of a verb instead of its present tense): It was into law.

For want of a better mode of expression, we often use the infinitive to denote futurity, especially when it seems to be taken adjectively; as, "The time to come,""The world to come,""Rapture yet to be."

the action or state is to be expressly limited to one class of beings, or to a particular person or thing, without making the verb finite; the noun or pronoun may be introduced before the infinitive by the preposition for: as, "For men to search their own glory, is not glory.

Of Infinitives by the preposition to, in Rule 18th; (6.)

But on one of Murray's examples, I would here observe, that the direct use of the infinitive for an objective noun is a manifest Grecism; as, "For to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not.

INFINITIVES AFTER BID, DARE, FEEL, HEAR, LET, &c. "I dare not to proceed so hastily, lest I should give offence.

Of Infinitives with TO Observations on Rule XVIII False Syntax under Rule XVIII Rule XIX.

Of Infinitives without TO Observations on Rule XIX False Syntax under Rule XIX Chapter VII.

Here on and to, of course, exclude of; but the latter may be changed to of, which will turn the infinitive into a noun: as, "His neglecting of study," &c. "Depending" and "neglecting," being equivalent to dependence and neglect, are participial nouns, and not "participles."

They place the infinitive before the word on which it depends; as, 1.

He at first conceives it to convey in general the idea of "towards," and to mark the infinitive as a term "towards which" something else "is directed."