An ‘infinitive’ is the basic form of a verb that usually goes after ‘to’.
Usually, when we say ‘infinitive’ we mean the most common: present infinitive after ‘TO’ (the basic/base form of verbs that we learn first or find in dictionaries).
The infinitive can also take a perfect, continuous, and passive form or a combination of those.
It can function as a noun, adjective, or adverb
Collocations of HAVE TO in the COCA corpus (9 tokens left and right): 1 WORRY (VVI ) 4009 2 CAREFUL (JJ ) 2155 3 ADMIT (VVI ) 1572 4 VIGILANT (JJ ) 176 5 RELEARN (VVI ) 33 One can guess there is a generally negative tone to this grammar structure from the above verbs […]
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