bare infinitive

And yet the bare infinitive has been chosen by the speaker.

Here the bare infinitive would, of course, have been the "normal" form.

There are fewer contexts where only the bare infinitive seems appropriate.

As with have, therefore, the bare infinitive after help denotes an event which is actually realized.

The bare infinitive would blunt the sharp edge of this expressive effect.

As for the grammatical meaning of the bare infinitive, the following remarks can be made.

The bare infinitive and the to-infinitive have a variety of uses in English.

This explains why the bare infinitive would not be possible in this context.

After why the bare infinitive is used: "Why reveal it?"

The to-infinitive consists of the bare infinitive introduced by the particle to.

They govern a bare infinitive (or to-infinitive in the case of ought and used).

The use of the bare infinitive in any of the above cases would make the subject of help seem too active.

This is also the place to deal with the occurrence of the bare infinitive after the verb ought (cf.

The present subjunctive is identical to the bare infinitive (and imperative) of the verb in all forms.

Speakers of BrE would instead use to go and plus bare infinitive.

In various particular expressions, such as had better and would rather (with bare infinitive), in order to, as if to, am to/is to/are to.

The principal parts of an English verb are the bare infinitive, past tense and past participle.

(1985: 1205) point out that "know followed by the bare infinitive is confined mainly to British English and to the perfective aspect".

This, to our mind, does not explain anything, besides not being distinctive of verbs followed by bare infinitives (cf.

Both of these verbs evoke the general notion of permission, but whereas let takes only the bare infinitive, allow must be followed by to.

This brings to a close the examination of contexts in which the to and bare infinitives can be directly opposed in use with full verbs.

Independently of any other verb, the bare infinitive here expresses an event as a possibility, a rejected possibility.

In their uses as modals they govern a bare infinitive, and are usually restricted to questions and negative sentences.

These sentences support Erades's and Wood's intuitions about the meaning of the bare infinitive construction.

The extremely rare use of the bare infinitive with the passive of perceptual verbs adds further proof that this is the case.