To hear, understood, governs all the infinitives that follow; among the rest, the winds (to) chide.

" EXCEPTION.Ought, must, need, and should (in the sense of "ought") have no distinctive form to denote past time; with these verbs present time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the present tense, past time is denoted by putting the complementary infinitive in the perfect tense: as, "You ought to go," "You ought to have gone;" "He should be careful," "He should have been careful."

The verb to be, with the perfect participle, forms the passive infinitive; and the supposition of such an ellipsis, extensively affects one's mode of parsing.

What do you think of it?" "The miserable man," said Francesca, "has split an infinitive, but he probably did it under the orders of the Railway Executive.

Dr. Lowth's specimen of "grammatical resolution" contains four infinitives.

S. S. Greene, in a recent grammar, absurdly parses infinitives "as nouns," and by the common rules for nouns, though he begins with calling them verbs.

At the beginning of these, are fourteen "Methods of Parsing," which show, successively, the properties and construction of his nine parts of speech; and, at the ninth method, which resolves infinitives, it is proposed that the pupil begin to apply a method of analysis similar to the Second one above.

But, say, this paper would never get to press if I took time to unsplit all my infinitives.

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."

Some grammatists, being predetermined that no preposition shall control the infinitive, avoid the conclusion by absurdly calling FOR, a conjunction; ABOUT, an adverb; and TOno matter whatbut generally, nothing.

This broad exception, therefore, which embraces well-nigh half the infinitives in the language, though it contains some obvious truth, is both carelessly stated, and badly resolved.

Words utterly needless, and worse than needless, they foist into our language, in instances beyond number, to explain infinitives that occur at almost every breath.

They did not even speak that "negro" language, which does not use the article, and only knows the infinitive of the verbsa language which has disappeared little by little, indeed, since the anti-slavery war.