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infinitive: see mood mood or mode, in verb inflection, the forms of a verb that indicate its manner of doing or being. In English the forms are called indicative (for direct statement or question or to express an uncertain condition, e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. ; tense tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice, mood, person, and
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Infinitive 

an indefinite form of the verb that can function syntactically as the substantive to provide the general name for an action or process, in many languages without reference to person, number, tense, or mood. It can have aspect, voice, and sometimes tense. A number of languages have various forms of the infinitive.
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This fictional infinitive phrase recalls the advice the speaker of Yeats's "Down by the Salley Gardens" is given by his lover in two similes drawn from nature: "bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;" and later, in line seven, "bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs" (The Collected Poems of W.
Reading John McGahern's The Barracks Through Yeats's "Down by the ... by Russell, Richard Rankin / Notes on Contemporary Literature
 
 
 
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