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