How To Use Nonfinite In A Sentence
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In both cases, a nonfinite clause requires a finite clause to resolve the inexplicitness.
On non-ambiguities
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Examples of this kind need to be discussed with reference to the distinction between finite and nonfinite.
Archive 2008-03-01
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This means that there is always the possibility of grammatical ambiguity whenever a nonfinite clause is used.
On non-ambiguities
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And be able to came to fill the gap of expressing ability whenever a nonfinite construction required it: one says to be able to talk, not to can talk.
On "can be able to"
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect.
Archive 2008-02-01
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A lovely fact about English is that the subjects of nonfinite verbs are in the objective case ``I don't like him saying that.''
So maybe Chief Justice Roberts was instinctively editing and "improving" the wording of the constitutional oath.
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In this case the modal auxiliary carries the tense, aspect and person; therefore, the verb that follows should be in its bare infinite, nonfinite form.
