"to-infinitive" meaning in English

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      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "bare infinitive"
        }
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2005, Bettelou Los, “Introduction”, in The Rise of the To-Infinitive (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "As it turned out, much previous work on the subject is based on two assumptions about the situation of the to'''-infinitive in OE that have never been tested, but have, through constant reiteration, achieved the status of axioms: first, that the categorial status of the to'''-infinitive in OE is PP; and secondly, that the to'''-infinitive spread at the expense of the infinitive without to, the bare infinitive (see below, §§1.2 and 1.3).",
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        "The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to."
      ],
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          "grammar",
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          "infinitive",
          "infinitive"
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          "to",
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        "(grammar) The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to."
      ],
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          "word": "full infinitive"
        },
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          "word": "marked infinitive"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "uninflected verb form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "infinitif avec to"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "uninflected verb form",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "infinitif complet"
        },
        {
          "alt": "toふていし",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "to futeishi",
          "sense": "uninflected verb form",
          "word": "to不定詞"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "to-infinitive"
}

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      "word": "bare infinitive"
    }
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    {
      "form": "to-infinitives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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        "The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to."
      ],
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        "(grammar) The English infinitive verb form when introduced by the particle to."
      ],
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    },
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  "translations": [
    {
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "uninflected verb form",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "infinitif avec to"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "infinitif complet"
    },
    {
      "alt": "toふていし",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "to futeishi",
      "sense": "uninflected verb form",
      "word": "to不定詞"
    }
  ],
  "word": "to-infinitive"
}