A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles

1. Introductory

2. Simple nexus as ordinary object

3. Simple nexus as object of result

4. Various remarks on nexus-objects

5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition

6. A simple nexus as tertiary

7. Nexus-substantives

8. The gerund. Substantive nature

9. The gerund. Verbal nature

10. The infinitive

11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative

12. Infinitive as object

13. To-infinitive as object

14. Infinitive governed by prepositions

15. The infinitive as tertiary

16. The infinitive as tertiary

17. Infinitives of reaction and specification

18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb

19. Subject + infinitive in other employments

20. Final remarks on infinitives

21. Clauses as tertiaries

22. Implied dependent nexus

23. Negation

14. Requests

15. Questions