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Verbs – The Infinitive

 

Summary of contents – Lesson 14

 

1-     Defining the Infinitive, looking at how it is formed and in what types of sentence structures or typical situations it might be used.

2-     More detail about how infinitives are used directly after other verbs and how this compares to verbs with ‘ing’ endings in English.

3-     Looking at how the preposition ‘a’ is used with infinitives to link two verbs together.

4-     Looking at how other types of prepositions are used with infinitives to link two verbs together.

5-     Looking at how the infinitive and other words are linked together in set sentence structures with and without propositions.

 

Aims of the lesson

 

1-     Being able to identify and correctly use verbs in their infinitive forms.

2-     Knowing in what situations and different types of sentence structures the infinitive is commonly used. In particular recognising the relationship between infinitives and how verbs with ‘ing’ endings are used in English.

3-     Understanding how prepositions are used with infinitives. Knowing how different types of prepositions are used with different verbs in the infinitive (a, en, con, de, por).

4-     Recognising the more usual and most common verbs that are used in sentence structures with and without the use of prepositions.

5-     Being able to use the infinitive in set sentence structures.

 

 

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