{"id":704,"date":"2011-03-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-63-infinitives-part-ii-of-ii\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T14:50:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:50:05","slug":"day-63-infinitives-part-ii-of-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-63-infinitives-part-ii-of-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 63: Infinitives part ii of ii"},"content":{"rendered":"
a. to think<\/p>\n
b. to be<\/p>\n
c. to show<\/p>\n
3. To can also be a preposition (a word
that shows position). To know if the to is an infinitive or a preposition,
follow these rules:<\/p>\n
a. Look at the word following the to.<\/p>\n
b. If the word following to is a verb, you know
it is an infinitive. For
example: to know<\/p>\n
c. If the word following the to is anything else
(noun, pronoun, adjective, etc.), it is a prepositional phrase. For
example: to the house<\/p>\n
<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/p><\/div>\n
Infinitives continued\u2026 They are easily confused with prepositional phrases containing the preposition to. If students learn early on when to is being used as part of an infinitive (when it is with any verb) and when it is used as a prepositional phrase (when it has an object following it), they will become better writers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,82,632],"tags":[352,346,131],"yoast_head":"\n