a: Infinitive ~
b: bacon on the hamburger of the sentence
What: "An infinitive is like bacon on the hamburger of the sentence. It's meat, but it's not the main meat. But when you buy a bacon burger, I bet you're really buying it for the bacon. And the finite verb may not be the real main event of the sentence. Sometimes the infinitive is what matters more."
Useful?
Writer: Annie Wei-Yu Kan
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Date: Oct 9 2013 3:35 PM
# 3904 Critique Analogy