How Form 2220 Dependents 2023-2024

Here, I want to talk about infinitive phrases. We're just infinitive and prepositional phrases, okay? Especially the professor. The prepositional phrase that has its preposition is the word "to." For example, "I'm going to the store." "I went." "She jumped to the left." So, we have a purpose, a preposition, and it's always going to be connected with an object. So, it's going to be a prepositional phrase. Now, that's pretty important. You're not going to have a preposition unless you also have its object. So, prepositions don't exist outside of what's called a prepositional phrase, which is just a collection of words that has the preposition and the prepositional object. So, "to the mail" would be the prepositional phrase. And the object in the prepositional phrase is "mail." But if you're going to pick one of these two words, pick "mail." Now, let's talk about infinitives. "I want to sing tonight." "We sleep to think better." "She takes her vitamins to stay healthy." Do you notice something here? These are not prepositional phrases. These are what are called infinitives. Let's take the sentence "I sing tonight." This is the present tense. "I said, let's go." "I think now." What about "I'm singing"? This is past tense. "I will sing." This is future tense. So, you see how these verbs change forms? Sing, singing, sang, will sing. If it's talking about the future, this is how we know this is a verb. But because it changes its form as you move the sentence through time, this is called the finite verb. Now, let's go with "I want to sing." "I wanted to sing." "I will want to sing." Notice that "to sing" does not change. It stays the same. But we just know that this really looks like it's a verb thing...