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The Use of the Infinitive Without the Particle “to”

Usage

Examples

Note

After the auxiliaries:

Do/did

Shall/will

Should/would

I don’t like tea.

I shall be sleeping at eleven.

He would like to go to the party.

Present/Past Indefinite

Future Tenses

Future-in-the-Past/Conditional Mood

After modal verbs

He may have come.

Except “ought, used to”

After the verb to help

But:

Will you help me carry this box?

This book helped me to see the truth.

External help is called in.

Assistance is outside the action proper.

After the verbs of sense perception1

To make

To have (=to get, to make)2

To know (=to experience)3

To let

To bid

I didn’t notice you enter the room.

I felt my heart jump.

Don’t make me laugh.

I will not have you treat her so cruelly.

We have never known him lose his temper before.

Let’s go for a walk.

The knight bade the traveller enter.

The Infinitive is used as part of the Objective-with-the-Infinitive Construction.4

It occurs in old-fashioned narrative style.

After the expressions:

Had better/best

Would rather/sooner

Cannot (help) but

Cannot choose but

To do nothing save/ but

Nothing to do except

He’d better go away.

I’d rather go away.

I cannot but laugh.

She does nothing but

make plans.

He had nothing to do but wait.

The Infinitive is part of the compound verbal modal predicate.

The Infinitive functions as adverbial modifier of exception.

After why (not), how in rhetorical questions

Why (not) go there right away?

How leave her there?

In one-member (Infinitive) sentences

If the Infinitive expands the meaning of the verb to do.

Turn off the gas was all I did.

All I did was (to) turn off the gas.

The Infinitive is the subject.

To” is optionally omitted if the infinitive is a predicative.

After than

I’ve more important things to do than (to) translate this unnecessary text.

To” is optionally omitted if the infinitive is an adverbial modifier of comparison.

1 The verb to be after the verb to feel is used with the particle “to”:

I felt this to be true.

2 The verb to have in the meaning of “допускать” is chiefly used after the modal verbs will and would in negative sentences.

I will not have you call him Daniel any more.

I would not have you think that I am selfish.

3 The verb to know in this meaning approaches that of to see, to observe (the verb to know never has this meaning in the Present Indefinite):

I have so often known a change of medicine work wonders.

In this case, however, the particle “to” is sometimes used:

I have never known her to weep before.

4 After the verbs to hear, to see, to make, to know, etc. in the Passive Voice the to-Infinitive is used. (The Infinitive is used as part of the Subjective-with-the-Infinitive Construction), e.g.: He was heard to mention your name several times.

They were seen to leave the house early in the morning. The child was made to obey. Sir Pitt Crawley was never known to give away a shilling or to do a good action.

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