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Sentence Complexity and EmbeddingGerunds, Infinitives and ParticiplesActivity 12.5: Answers Exercise A: Underline the infinitives and analyze their structures. 1. To work until 5:00 is common in the US. Exercise B: Underline the infinitives in these sentences and analyze their structures. 1. I hope not to get a bad grade on the test. Features of Infinitive Structure: Infinitives can take verb modifiers (adverbs, prespositional phrases), but not noun modifiers (adjectives, quantifiers, determiners).Infinitives can have their own complements (direct object, indirect object). Infinitives can have an agent but it must be identified as the object of he preposition for. Infinitives can be negative and can take aspect and voice. |