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I've heard this story be told in three versions. is what you want to say. I think what is going on here is that to hear is a verb of perception, and because of that the to of the infinitive to b …

Verbs in English can be active or passive. Passive verbs are expressed with a form of to be followed by the past participle form of the verb. Pretty much all tenses and aspects can work in active …

Your advanced student is wrong. This is an indirect way of suggesting that someone not do that Above, the subject of the second do in the that clause is someone. This is an indirect way of s …

Everything is fine except 2, but not because it's an infinitive. Take 1 for exampe ... He appeared to be punished for what he did = Someone punished him for what he did. This is fine. He is …

Any "ditransitive verb", or verb taking two objects (one direct, one indirect) is going to mean something similar to "give." I gave her the ball The direct object is "the ball" and the indirect …

Some useful heuristics for deciding when to omit the to: They [bare infinitives] usually occur after certain verbs like feel, hear, help, let, make, see, and watch. …

Both are correct but mean different things. Be + infinitive X means "destined to X" - usually in the sense that someone has planned, programmed, or commanded X to happen. Going to X = will X. Usual …

X am/is/was/were to Y means that a plan has been made for X to do Y. It is also used by an authority figure or leader to A) indirectly tell someone what to do, B) tell someone else what they should b …

To lead means "to be the first in a line" and/or "to control the movement of things following you." A leader might stay in one spot and "lead" by giving orders to other people, but it does not mean …

Both work. The infinitive is more "abstract" than the gerund in places where you can use both, which typically means you are talking about the possibility or ability of something to happen more than …

To is a sign of the infinitive, but it's also a preposition. Since nouns are the objects of prepositions, gerunds (which take the place of nouns) can appear after to as well. In the phrase the way t …

If you work at a job you enjoy This is actually two phrases. There's a that in here that's omitted. If you work at a job that you enjoy. So enjoy here is not an infinitive - it has a subje …

The construction { form of to be } + { past participle form of verb } is the passive voice. It is a way of expressing an action without mentioning a specific person or category of people involved in …

Theory: All of these verbs already mean "I consider it true that X is Y" even if the second to be in each sentence wasn't there - a meaning similar to a couplar/linking verb is part of that meaning. S …

Regarding the use of in with time: There's a couple of common expressions that use in with time (there's probably more than below): In time - means before an understood deadline of some sort. It diff …