non-finite

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of verbs) not having tense, person, or number (as a participle or gerund or infinitive)
    infinite verb form
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How To Use non-finite In A Sentence

  • I've studied languages that use relative pronouns freely in analogous non-finite clauses.
  • An ungrounded clause corresponds to the traditional category of non-finite clause.
  • Another 4 are in non-finite clauses or are post-verbal uses.
  • The form of ellipsis includes compound noun, parallel structure, attributive clause, adverbial clause, parentheses, non-finite forms of the verb and transformation of sentences.
  • Conversation: "an unfigurable Universe (a term henceforth deceptive); a Universe escaping every optical exigency and also escaping consideration of the whole — essentially non-finite, disunified, discontinuous" (350). Thinking Singularity with Immanuel Kant and Paul de Man: Aesthetics, Epistemology, History and Politics
  • As I have demonstrated in detail in Huang, there is no distinction between finite and non-finite clauses in this language.
  • As I have demonstrated in detail in Huang, there is no distinction between finite and non-finite clauses in this language.
  • By definition, non-finite verb phrases do not have tense marking.
  • The fact of the matter is that want is a transitive verb, and hence requires an object, whether that object is a noun phrase, or a non-finite clause (formed with an infinitive), as in We want to learn English. G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
  • In the case of brains, our neurons may grow and form new connections at any time, changing the NUMBER of state REGISTERs in a dynamic and non-finite way. More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat
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