[...]... Onions, An Advanced English Syntax, London 1911, new ed., 1971 The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) H E Palmer, A Grammar of Spoken English, Cambridge 1924 H Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, Groningen, Part I, 2nd ed., 1928 (Grammar2 ); Part II, 1914-1926 R Quirk, S Greenbaum, G Leech, J Svartvik, A Grammar of Contemporary English, London 1972 F L Sack, The Structure of English, Cambridge & Berne... from that after to allow, etc (31), in that the 'accusative' can hardly be regarded as the object of the preceding verb From Allow me to congratulate you, we may isolate Allow me, without altering the meaning of the isolated part; but I like boys to be quiet may be said by a master who does not like boys at all, and I hate you to talk like that may be said to a friend If we are asked to say what is... e.v hang B 2 VERBS 6 variable, however, in that the forms made and making also occur in this combination (On the noun make-believe, see 812.2.) The same applies to make do (= manage) He made believe that he was rich She had to make do with a day-girl Similar groups with to hear are to hear say, hear tell (On the noun 'hearsay see 812.2.) I hear say that there will be an election soon.' We have all of. .. Handbook of Present-day English, 5th ed., Groningen 1931-2 (Handbooks) - Grammar and Idiom, Groningen 1935 E Kruisinga and P A Erades, An English Grammar, 8th ed., Groningen R B Long, The Sentence and its Parts, Chicago 1961 [1953-1960 H Marchand, The Categories and Types of Present-Day English WordFormation, Wiesbaden 1960 H L Mencken, The American Language, 4th ed., New York 1936 C T Onions, An Advanced... after to feel and to see when these verbs denote mental, not physical perceptions, and after to know in the sense of 'to be aware' (cf 18) I felt (saw) the plan to be all wrong I felt (saw) (that) the plan was all wrong They knew the man to be a liar They knew (that) the man was a liar There is an example of to hear followed by an acc with to be in 1Instead of cause the grass to grow spoken English would... such a lot of money? A suggestion made in such a question (or in some other way) may be rejected as impossible or absurd in a following exclamatory sentence, which may again take the form of a question:' Why not apologize and ask his pardon? — Ask that man's pardon? Never! (See also 574, last ex.) An exclamatory infinitive may be preceded by a subject of its own: Do you think George could write a novel?... used as auxiliaries To be, to do, and to have have irregular forms in the third person singular present tense: is [iz], does [dAz], and has [hxz], besides being irregular in other respects 8 9 Instead of the stem + dental-suffix, a fairly large number of verbs use an irregular form in the function of the past tense or the past participle, or of both Verbs with an irregular past tense and a regular past... combination) occurs only as an infinitive Compare also go fetch!(orderto dog, COD_) To make believe = to pretend is likewise a stereotyped phrase, in so far as the plain infinitive believe can only be combined with to make (apart, again, from the verbs of 16); it is a little more 1Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, 2nd ed (henceforward denoted by Grammar' ), I, Ch II, § 29 Wyld, Universal Dictionary,... those of 18 and 31 in the passive (see 46 ff.) a She was heard to come downstairs b The troops were ordered to cease fire 2 On an alternative construction after verbs expressing a command, see 172 32 The infinitive with to is often used with the present or past tense of to be, which then functions as an auxiliary of predication (147), to express an ARRANGEMENT Such an arrangement may be: 1 personal: a. .. functions as a direct object In the last examples of 30, too, it cannot well be interpreted otherwise; similarly in a case like She liked to learrobut hated to teach An example of the infinitive with to as a subject and as a nominal predicate (To know him is to like him) was given in 14 As Jespersen (MEG V, 11.24) observes, in such a sentence 'the second act or state is regarded as a necessary or immediate . Pronunciation A Grammar of English Words The Use of English English Grammar A Practical English Grammar A Practical English Grammar Combined Exercises, Vols. I & II The Best English. tense or the past participle, or of both. Verbs with an irregular past tense and a regular past participle are rare: crow — crew (usually crowed) — crowed; dare — durst (usually dared). Educational Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Pan Pan Pan Macmillan Macmillan A HANDBOOK OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR R. W. ZANDVOORT Emeritus Professor of English in the University