1. To Infinitives And Beyond…
The last of the verbals.

2. 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…

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Last person in the row get whiteboards

8. 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

9. Write your own sentence based on the pictures
Infinitive phrase
subject

10. Inf phrase/DO

11. Infinitive phrase PN