question in ENGLISH!!! help please.?

Question

my paper says to distinguish between infinitives and prepistional phrases. how do i do that??

Answer 1

infinitives is a verb. just the verb. like to ride. or to sing. prepositional phrases are phrases with the verb inside. like to ride a bike. or to sing loudly.

Answer 2

This is how you distiguish them,

In grammar, infinitive is the name for certain verb forms that exist in many languages. In the usual (traditional) description of English, the infinitive of a verb is its basic form with or without the particle to: therefore, do and to do, be and to be, and so on are infinitives. Prepistional Phrases are prepositions and the noun phrases that follow them. (A preposition is a word that is used with a noun or pronoun to create a sentence that tells you where, when, how, and why.)

Answer 3

An infinitive is the basic (impersonal) form of a verb:
to shop, to play, to eat

A PREPOSITIONAL phrase is a phrase starting with a preposition and containing a noun:
from heaven, between the sheets, at the movies, under the boardwalk....

Answer 4

A prepositional phrase includes the preposition (e.g. in, on, above, under) and the object of the preposition as well as any modifiers related to either. For example, "The cow jumped over the moon." "Over the moon" is the prepositional phase which has the preposition (i.e. "over") and the object of the preposition (i.e. "the moon").

An infinitive phrase includes the infinitive (e.g. to give, to eat, to go, etc) and the object of the infinitive or any modifiers related to the infinitive. For example, "The court's decision to give the people more rights caused controversy." "To give the people..." is an infinitive phrase which has the infinitive (i.e. "to give") and the object of the infinitive (i.e. "the people").

Answer 5

http://grammar.uoregon.edu/phrases/prepositionalP.html os an example of PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES.

http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/infinitivephrase.htm

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