To Infinitives And Beyond… The last of the verbals.
What are infinitives? They are formed by taking “to” plus a verb To go, to run, to fly, to swim Infinitives are verbals that can be adjectives, adverbs, or nouns! Beware of to plus a noun or pronoun… That would be a preposition Let’s deal with infinitives as nouns…
What are the functions of a noun? SUBJECT DIRECT OBJECT INDIRECT OBJECT (not too often) OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION (hardly ever) PREDICATE NOMINATIVE THAT’S PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
So, tell me how these infinitives are functioning. To win is important. I hate to lose. My goal is to travel. We went to the mall.
Infinitives as adverbs/adjectives For Gilly, the slope will be easy to ski. A good place to visit is Vermont. To learn, listen to Gilly.
Infinitive phrases What can these be? Duh. Infinitives PLUS words that relate to it. Whole phrase behaves like a noun, adverb, or adjective To love grammar is hard. My goal is to pass language arts.
Last person in the row get whiteboards
Put it all together…find the infinitive and tell me what it is doing. We hoped to travel this summer. To travel this summer/inf ph do To write a book would be easy. To write a book/inf ph s The team chose him to be the captain. to be the captain/inf ph adj To be the best, work hard every day. To be the best/inf ph adv They were anxious to see her. to see her/inf phrase adv
Write your own sentence based on the pictures Infinitive phrase subject
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Infinitive phrase PN