An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to study. Many English verbs can be followed by a grammatical structure that contains an infinitive and is known as an "infinitive ...

Skip downward to go straight to the dirty tips and tricks. Have you ever had a preening pedant correct you when you split an infinitive? Has a self-righteous scold kindly let you know that one thing ...

My day was as empty as a human resources manager’s imagination, so I was heading for a pint or two of Smithwick’s with my barfly associates, the Afternoon Travelers, when an anomaly loomed on the ...

Spoken English is following the lead taken by Star Trek to boldly go in search of new grammatical rules. A vast collection of British conversations containing 11.5 million words has uncovered an ...

Language Acquisition, Vol. 14, No. 1 (2007), pp. 75-113 (39 pages) This article focuses on the meaning of nonfinite clauses ("root infinitives") in Dutch and English child language. I present ...

Do you have any hobbies you'd like to start doing? Beth and Neil talk about things they enjoy and our grammar guru Georgie explains the grammar of -ing verbs and infinitives. Learn which verbs to use ...

It’s easy to get confused about proper grammar because there’s so many different rules. Some of the rules you’ve probably heard, however, may not necessarily be true, and this video is here to clear ...