D-11.06 To Continue to Display Willingness to Improve Your Grammar, Don’t Forget to Look to Infinitives

Chapter 19: Infinitive Phrases (“Time to Celebrate”) of the New Scenario 1: Beginning to Use English Grammar in Context, pages 257-270 14 pages Who It’s For: (Teachers & Helpers of) High Beginning Through Intermediate Language Improvers Ready to “Take a Break” from Whole-Sentence Grammar to Learn to Use Other Elements to Advantage Why It’s Useful: In contrast to “complete-sentence construction,” there are elements of phrasing to be considered separately from standard “Subject + Verb” patterns. Infinitives (to + Base Verb) tend to be the most prevalent of these.  Infinitives can serve as sentence subjects, as in “To be or not to be is the question.”  More often, however, within sentences, infinitives are likely to follow certain verbs like agree or begin; adjectives like able or happy; or nouns such as time or chance.  There are also “infinitives of purpose” that are expected to mean “in order to + Verb.”  To get a freshly-created Chapter on Holidays Around the World, you’re