Tuesday, May 25, 2021

What function does the bare infinitive serve?

The bare infinitive does not exist to make life difficult for ESL learners, who sometimes confuse it with to-infinitive. 

What function does the bare infinitive serve? See my language awareness article in today's Ming Pao.

https://news.mingpao.com/pns/%e8%8b%b1%e6%96%87/article/20210526/s00017/1621966102851/%e8%8b%b1%e8%aa%9eguide-why-do-we-need-the-bare-infinitive

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