Hello Mentors,
I am just curious about this form… “to + verb 3”
to improved
to loved
to impressed
Do we have a form like that? If so, how/when can we use it?
Please help me…;}
Julius
No, not really
This word combination can’t occur on its own.
But that is not to say that it is entirely impossible. I’ve found this sentence fragment (out of many) in COCA:
…increasing the pool of voluntary and experienced mariners as opposed to impressed and unskilled laborers…
But this is not what you have in mind because “to” and “impressed” are not directly related. “to” is part of “as opposed to”. And “impressed” is directly related to “laborers”.
I do understand now.
Thank you so much Mentor Our Tort System.
Maybe the verb that I have noticed in the exam is something connected to the noun after the preposition TO. ( like the example you gave )
Thank you again 
julius
Hi Julli—,
It is called “split infinitive”. Articulate grammarians are sometime using this specially in the USA.
Like:
To accurate check is odd, but not unacceptable.
Please see:
Better English by Norman Lewis.
Hi Min,
I’m just curious, did you take your sample sentence from “Better English by Norman Lewis” or is it of your own creation?
Thanks.
It is up to you whether you will follow the Better English or not. Please stop your misleading digression.
Hi Julius,
The examples you have given seem to be part of perfect infinitives - to have loved/to have impressed and so on. They cpuld also be part of passive infinitives as: to be loved/to be impressed. For the record they have nothing to do with split infinitives as our friend is suggesting. A split infinitive is when an adverb is placed between ‘to’ and the infinitive. An example would be: to accurately check. Incidentally our riend would be well advised to do just that before he bursts into print the next time
Alan
Out of interest I attach a reference to Norman Lewis, who is quoted so often by someone on this forum:
Sir Alan,
can we say?
to accurately checked.
Mentors, thank you so much for helping me…
Julius
No. you need the infinitive and not the past participle. You could say: to be accurately checked.
Ah I see. Thank you so much Sir. Alan.
Julius
Hi Alan Thank you for saying and linking Mr. Norman Lewis.
I am addicted by his book “Better English” since 1993.
You are right to have adverb before the verb, but If I say an adjective there will not
much wrong as grammatical sense,it is not splitting much more, what do you think?
I didn’t make using wrongly but to see the reaction!
Salute the Mr. Lewis again as my Guru in English grammar who has given me a lot of courage
Putting the adjective before the verb in that sort of construction is flying in the face of reason. Adverbs qualify verbs.
Sorry, here ‘Check’ is not a true verb. It is a noun by context of the sentence.
You are well known an infinitive acts as noun, adjective or adverb in a sentence.
Hello Minhajquazi,
It may be true that you have looked at a number of English grammar books. However, your ability to accurately and coherently explain what you have looked at is practically nonexistent. In fact, it appears that you have misunderstood much of what you have looked at.
What is also clear is that your English is nowhere near as good as you seem to think it is. Obviously you are not a complete beginner, but on a scale of 1 to 4 (with 1 being the lowest level, and 4 being advanced), I’d put your English skill level in the 2 range – based on what I’ve seen you write on this forum.
I have taught all levels of English, and I’ve done that for over 25 years. As a result of my long experience in ESL, I have become quite good at interpreting the mangled English I often hear from lower level learners. However, even I have trouble figuring out what you are trying to say in many cases. And that’s saying something.
Sorry to be so direct, but since you’ve rejected the same sorts of comments from other experts in English, I finally decided it was time to post my agreement with them. Right now you still seem to be living in fantasyland. I hope that you will be able to accept reality very soon. That would be good for everyone – including you.
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Our Tort System answered Julius’s question very well. You did not. The information you gave Julius was just wrong information.
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Yes, Mr. EsL Ex., you are right about Juli, matter, after writing I had guessed I gave him much higher level grammar that he did not ask me. By this time, Mr. Alan, has come across the stage and so on.
Thanks you have given me the score, I benignly just reject you as I am above 3 out of 4. or I am 4 out of 5 in Odesk.com, you can search me there by my name.
qminhajuddinahme,
Please don’t show me you are over smart, neither do I. why don’t you make a score in “Sentence structure” and “Oxford level English” there? Then give me the link and I would salute you man!
Your level is not so far above 2 out of 4 now as well too!
OH! Their test is free so do now and proof me that I am wrong! I always like the positive and productive challenge from my boyhood, Please do it and show the other members here,Cheer up man!
Sorry, I obliged to write you again.
With respect you, I checked through the grammarly.com(ETN approved ad. here so we can depend on it!) that tells me you have made 25 mistakes, 5 grammars, 19 styles etc.
Sorry, I couldn’t have refrained me to do so. Your words were not above 150.
If I make careful, I usually do not make above 12 mistakes all this words. Sorry, it seems it looks harsh now. I think you need not to have exam at odesk earlier I told you so.
I am a researcher in English language and fond of English grammar.
Bravo Quazi, you have excelled yourself!
I hereby dub thee the Yoda of this forum.
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.
–YODA, Shatterpoint
That’s an insult to Yoda, Tort. He made sense.
Yeah I concur,
Quazi is a riot!
I chuckled to myself when I read his post above where he claims he has found 25 mistakes in Amy’s post. I mean this one’s for the books!
He can’t expect us to take him seriously, which leads me to believe he’s doing it for kicks, to have a good laugh.