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(b) Objective, oftenest with the infinitive uninflected, but often inflected. 
(c) Other substantival uses: 
(aa) As a predicate nominative, infrequent, oftener with the infinitive 
inflected. 
(bb) As an appositive, infrequent, oftener with the infinitive uninflected. 
(cc) As the object of a preposition: the examples cited are all very doubtful. 
(2) Predicative (or more verbal), in which we have the infinitive: 
(a) As the predicative complement after: 
(aa) Auxiliary verbs, with the infinitive normally uninflected, but sporad¬ 
ically inflected. 
(bb) Verbs of motion and of rest, with the infinitive invariably uninflected. 
(cc) The adhortative (w)uton, with the infinitive invariably uninflected. 
(dd) Beon (Wesan) to denote habitually necessity, but occasionally futurity 
and purpose. In each of these three uses the infinitive is habitually inflected 
except occasionally in the first. 
(b) As the quasi-predicate of: 
(aa) An accusative subject after certain groups of verbs ((1) commanding, 
(2) causing and permitting, (3) sense perception; less frequently: (4) mental 
perception; very rarely: (5) declaring and (6) other verbs), with the infinitive 
habitually uninflected, but occasionally inflected. The accusative-with-infini- 
tive construction is much more frequent in objective than in subjective clauses. 
(bb) A dative subject apparently but not really, with the infinitive sometimes 
uninflected and sometimes inflected. 
(3) Adverbial, subdivided into: 
(a) Final, frequent, with the infinitive both uninflected and inflected. 
(b) Causal, rare, oftener with the infinitive inflected. 
(c) Specificatory: with verbs, rare, always with the infinitive inflected; with 
adjectives, frequent, with the infinitive habitually inflected, but sporadically 
uninflected. 
(d) Consecutive, with adjectives and with verbs, with the infinitive habitu¬ 
ally, if not exclusively, inflected. 
(e) Absolute, with the infinitive habitually inflected, but sporadically 
uninflected. 
(4) Adjectival, to limit a noun or a pronoun, in which use we have habitu¬ 
ally the inflected infinitive, but sporadically the uninflected infinitive. In a 
few of these examples the inflected infinitive is almost a pure adjective; and in 
a few others it closely approximates a Latin gerundive. 
5. The Differentiation between the Uninflected Infinitive and the Inflected 
Infinitive seems to rest upon this general principle, though not without a few 
apparent, if not real, exceptions: the uninflected infinitive is used normally, in 
substantival uses, as a nominative or an accusative of a verbal noun; in predica¬ 
tive and in adverbial uses, as an accusative; the inflected infinitive is used nor¬ 
mally, in substantival (objective), in predicative, in adverbial, and in adjectival 
uses, to represent a case other than the nominative or the accusative, what for 
lack of a better term I have designated an “ indirect case,” which corresponds 
oftenest, as would be expected from its composition, to the dative case, but also 
to the genitive case and to the instrumental case. And, owing to the influence 
