By Gerald P. Berent, Ph.D. Department of Research National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology. An "infinitive" in English is a verb preceded by the word to, as in to ...

Such as the "split infinitive" rule, which holds that it's wrong to extend an infinitive by stuffing extra words between the "to" and the verb; "to boldly go" is a split infinitive.

This mood uses the base form of the operative verb (the verb's infinitive form without the "to"), and is most often used in second-person, present-tense sentences that use an elliptical subject or ...

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 loo… ...