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In the sentence “I want to sleep when I’m tired,” the words “to sleep” are a/an?
A. prepositional phrase.
B. indirect object.
C. infinitive phrase.
D. predicate adjective
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C.
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C. infinitive phrase
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No-one is doing ‘to sleep’, at no particular time, so it’s an infinitive – in English, with more than one word required, an infinitive phrase. Back when additional languages were taught using grammar, you were told to conjugate a verb – ie, give all its forms (usually in a specific tense). Thus, in French, ‘aimer’ (to love) is conjugated in the present tense as follows:
j’aime – I love
tu aimes – you love
il/elle aime – he/she loves
nous aimons – we love
vous aimez – you (plural) love
ils/elles aiment – they love
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Infinitive phrase – it’s called ACI (Accusative *** Infinitive)
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