Verbs followed by a direct object and a to-infinitive
Some verbs are used with a direct object (underlined) followed by a to-infinitive. These verbs include: …

infinitive | American Dictionary

infinitive
noun[ C ]
us/ɪnˈfɪn·ə·t̬ɪv/
grammar
the basic form of a verb, usually following "to" or another verb form:
In the sentences "I had to go" and "I must go," "go" is an infinitive.

Examples of infinitive

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In only one case do we find a toinfinitive straightforwardly replacing a bare infinitive.
As an analogical change, this would have been supported by the parallel use of modals and be in ellipsis contexts and with overt infinitives.
However, in the same volume to infinitive complements still predominate with the adjective, for there are 8 of these.
Strikingly, in a majority of cases, the finite forms were more frequent than their infinitive counterparts.
We excluded all infinitives and other verb forms from the two lists and ended up with a high degree of correspondence.
If infinitives did not raise overtly, but objects in subordinate clauses did, the order is explained.
Heuristics are used only for apposition, embedded infinitive clauses, and nominal postmodifications.
Second, orientation in my study was based on the so-called irregular verb forms, which were obviously different from the italicized infinitive forms of the verbs.
In over 400 do + infinitive examples from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, all but about 50 are accomplishments, and some two dozen are achievements.
It is divided into two rules, one for infinitives with a subject, and one for infinitives without.
It is worth noting that concrete action verbs had a particularly high proportion of infinitives reflecting modal use.
If particular verbs happen to occur predominantly as infinitives, the child will start using this form first.
People now regularly split their infinitives, dangle their par ticiples, and end sentences with prepositions.
In some cases, such as (57) above, the infinitive may either be elided or simply not occur, yielding (58).
In the modern language, the supine ultimately fell together morphologically (though, to be sure, not syntactically) with the infinitive.
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