Appendix
Proverbs with the infinitive
Absence makes heart grow founder.
All men can’t be masters.
All men can’t be first.
All truths are not to be told.
All work and no play make jack a dull boy.
Anything to keep him quiet.
An apple a day keeps a doctor away.
As the man sows, so shall he reap.
As the tree falls, so shall it lie.
As you brew, so must you drink.
The beggar may sing before a thief.
Beggars cannot be choosers.
Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
Better be alone than in a bad company.
Better be born lucky than rich.
Better be a fool than a knave.
Better be envied than pitied.
Better lose a jest than a friend.
Better speak truth rudely than lie covertly.
Better to ask the way than to go astray.
Better suffer a great evil than do a small one.
A bird may be known by its flight.
Books and friends should be few but good.
Burn not your house to frighten the mouse away.
Caesar’ s wife must be beyond suspicion.
Don’t set the fox to keep your geese.
Don’t teach fishes to swim.
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
An early riser is sure to be in luck.
A fair face may hide a foul soul.
Fish begins to stink at the head.
Fools will be fools.
Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
The hardest work is to do nothing.
He begins to die that quits his desires.
He isn’t fit to command others that cannot command himself.
He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
He that lies down with dogs must rise with fleas.
He that loses his honesty has nothing else to lose.
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
It is better to do well than to say well.
It is too late to lock the stable when the horse has been stolen.
It is late to seek advice after you have run into danger .
It takes two to make a quarrel.
Learn to creep before you leap.
Little bodies may have great souls.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.
A man can die but once.
A mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Never try to prove what nobody doubts.
Never write what you dare not sign.
No man can serve two masters.
Nothing so bad, as not to be good for something.
Not to advance is to retreat.
One is never too old to learn.
There are more ways bitter to endure may be sweet to .
Things done cannot be undone.
To err is human.
Too good to be true.
What must be must be.
When guns speak it is too late to argue.
You cannot burn the candle at both sides.
You cannot touch pitch and not be defiled.
You may know by a handful the whole sack.
You must take the fat with the lean.
You must grin and bear it.
Contents
Verbals
The Infinitive
The Use of the Bare Infinitive
Special cases of the use of the Infinitive
The Syntactic Functions of the Infinitive
The For-to-infinitive Connstruction
The Complex Object Construction
The Complex Subject Construction
Exercises
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