Writer’s Choice: Infinitives
Page 522; exercises 12, 13, 14
To talk: hablar
She loves to talk.
Conjugated verb to talk:
She always talks.
You talk too much.
Infinitive form of the verb:
To talk
To exercise twenty minutes a day is not enough. (subject)
No one wishes to volunteer. (direct object)
Their decision was to merge. (predicate nominative)
Their decision is the subject.
Verb: was (to be form of the verb)
To be
I am (first person form of the verb to be)
You are
He is
We are
They are
To be:
Is, were, was, am
Predicate: is everything that is not the subject. It includes the verb.
The predicate nominative is the noun that occurs in the predicate and that completes the subject.
My favorite animal is a cat.
Subject: My favorite animal
Predicate: is a cat.
Cat is the predicate nominative.
Infinitive: always begins with a “to”.
Object of a preposition: follows the preposition.
A preposition is anything a kitten can do to a table.
In, into, on, around, through, over, under the table, sit behind, inside, above, beside
If a noun follows a preposition, it cannot be the subject.
Pages 522; exercise 13:
1. infinitive phrase: To measure the depths – subject
2. infinitive phrase: to unlock the secrets –
begun is a verb – direct object.
