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Abstract
In this paper, the researcher accounts for two different points of view
concerning the tense of infinitive clauses in English language when
functioning as verb complementation, and explains their bases and
justifications. Some grammarians postulate that infinitive clauses
complementation are tensed clauses, having the feature
tense
, since
they, sometimes, indicate time relations different from that of the matrix
clause, while most grammarians and linguists say that infinitive clauses, in
their two types- 'to'- infinitives and bare infinitives, are tenseless clauses;
they are nonfinite clauses.
Grammarians state that infinitive clauses functioning as verb
complementation are tensed clauses due to the presence of some temp
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