]
+Explanation+.--_Stir_ is an infinitive without the _to_.
16. Being persuaded by Poppaesa, Hero caused his mother, Agrippina, to be
assassinated.
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LESSON 42.
INFINITIVES--CONTINUED.
Analysis.
The +infinitive phrase+ may be used +independently+. [Footnote: These
infinitive phrases can be expanded into dependent clauses. See Lesson 79.
For the infinitive after _as, than_, etc., see Lesson 63. Participles and
infinitives unite with other verbs to make compound forms; as, have
_walked_, shall _walk_.]
+Explanation+.--In the diagram the independent element must stand by
itself.
1. England's debt, to put it in round numbers, is $4,000,000,000.
2. Every object has several faces, so to speak.
3. To make a long story short, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette were
executed.
Infinitives and Participles.
MISCELLANEOUS.
4. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord.
5. We require clothing in the summer to protect the body from the heat of
the sun.
6. Rip Van Winkle could not account for everything's having changed so.
7. This sentence is not too difficult for me to analyze.
8. The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole,
9. Conscience, her first law broken, wounded lies.
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