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What are the following statements? Please post them
Answer: I’m working <u>to save</u> up for some new music.
Denise likes <u>to get</u> her exercise by dancing.
Dave has <u>to walk</u> the dog every morning.
Explanation:
The infinitive in English expresses the meaning of the verb in a general way, without reference to any verbal tense.
As a rule in English grammar, when a verb is in infinitive it must be preceded by the particle <em>'to'</em>, for example, <em>'to play'</em>.
According to this explanation, only the following sentences contain an infinitive:
I’m working <u>to save</u> up for some new music.
Denise likes <u>to get</u> her exercise by dancing.
Dave has <u>to walk</u> the dog every morning.
The other sentences, although have the particle 'to' are not followed by a verb.
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain tops that freeze,
Bow themselves when he did sing:
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Every thing that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea,
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art,
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or hearing, die.
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,
The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,
Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,
And after many a summer dies the swan.
Me only cruel immortality
Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms,
Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-hair’d shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the East,
Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn …