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Types Of Infinitive
Full infinitives Bare infinitives
Full infinitives, also Bare infinitives,
known as to- also known as zero
infinitives, are the infinitives, are
most common formed without to
infinitives in writing. —you simply use
You can create a full the base form of a
infinitive by taking verb within a
the base form of a sentence. As you
verb and adding to in
front of it. For can imagine, this
example, the verb be gets confusing, but
—which is often thankfully bare
conjugated to is, are, infinitives are less
was, were, etc. common than full
infinitives.