A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

1. Introductory 2. Simple nexus as ordinary object 3. Simple nexus as object of result 4. Various remarks on nexus-objects 5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition 6. A simple nexus as tertiary 7. Nexus-substantives 8. The gerund. Substantive nature 9. The gerund. Verbal nature 10. The infinitive 11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative 12. Infinitive as object 13. To-infinitive as object 14. Infinitive governed by prepositions 15. The infinitive as tertiary 16. The infinitive as tertiary 17. Infinitives of reaction and specification 18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb 19. Subject + infinitive in other employments 20. Final remarks on infinitives 21. Clauses as tertiaries 22. Implied dependent nexus 23. Negation 14. Requests 15. Questions