What is bare infinitivals?
I told her how clean she is.
How did he help me with the work?
She made me clean the room.
Why do you think so?
Is there anything that I should know and let him know.
I saw the whole event of her cleaning the room, not a segment of it as in’I saw her cleaning the room.” The CGEL, p. 312. ” 1237)
It now in has the meaning of’actual'(direct) help – he actually did some of the work, whereas he ‘enabled me to do it myself’ in’He helped me to do the work.’ ‘ (CGEL,,p. 36, p. 12). 1209)
(Abstract iii) it’s not easy to find really what the bare infinitival implications are. They seem to have the wholeness , but not connected with the actuality . Are the bare infinitivals intending to say their actions are simultaneously with the main verbs’ activities, without delay and hence for’to’is likely to project into the future?
Why do so many people bother to ask questions about human nature?