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
Linguix Browser extension
Fix your writing
on millions of websites
Linguix writing coach
  • 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
  • An ungrounded clause corresponds to the traditional category of non-finite clause.
  • In the case of Computers, there are all sorts of tricks we use to establish a non-finite Virtual Memory. More atheist proselytising « Anglican Samizdat
  • My take on it is that the religious conception is not just about downloading the Platonic forms of "us" out of our meat bodies and uploading them into another substantial -- albeit "spiritual" -- form in another (higher, purer, but nevertheless existential, which is to say experiential) "reality", one which just so happens to be temporally non-finite. On Existence And Eternity
  • In a nutshell, if my quadripartite system distinguishes four sets of endings exemplified in the 1ps with *-mi (objective progressive), *-m (objective non-progressive), *-h₂ór (subjective progressive) and *-h₂e (subjective non-progressive), then it stands to follow that there may likewise be four non-finite forms, participles, corresponding to each of the four categories I describe. Archive 2009-09-01
  • Another 4 are in non-finite clauses or are post-verbal uses.
  • And so we are able to speculate about the case of a non-finite presence-in-absence by starting with but moving beyond the limits of the presence and absence we are familiar with in the realm of limited things. Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa]
  • Discuss non-finite verb rules and potentials instead. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Incidentally, there seems to be some uncertainty as to what this area of grammar (where verbs are followed by other, non-finite, verbs) is called. G is for Gerund « An A-Z of ELT
  • I've studied languages that use relative pronouns freely in analogous non-finite clauses.
  • By definition, non-finite verb phrases do not have tense marking.

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):

This website uses cookies to make Linguix work for you. By using this site, you agree to our cookie policy