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ADDENDA. 
after first, last, or the like (in this case = in with gerund): as the first to come = 
‘the first in coming/ ‘the first who comes or came.’” The earliest example 
given is from Coverdale (1535): 2 Sam . 19.11: “Why wyl ye be the last to 
fetch the kynge agayne unto his house?” 
Under “III. With infinitive in substantival relation,” the Dictionary 
gives two larger subdivisions: — 
“13a. With infinitive as subject, or as object with complement, intro¬ 
duced by it or an impersonal verb; in quotations c. 1205 without it:” see 
the paragraph on the differentiation of the two infinitives as subject, in the 
present note. 
“6. With infinitive as direct subject or predicate, or in apposition with a 
substantive or pronoun, or after than: often replaceable by the gerund or 
verbal substantive in -ing.” Of this use no example is given from Anglo- 
Saxon, but see Chapter I, pp. 7 ff., and Chapter III, pp. 73 ff., above, where 
examples are given from Anglo-Saxon. 
“14a. With infinitive as direct object of a transitive verb,” of which ex¬ 
amples are unnecessary here. See the paragraph on the differentiation of the 
two infinitives as object, in the present note, and Chapter II, pp. 28 ff., above. 
The Dictionary puts here, allowably, the infinitive with auxiliary verbs, while 
I have put this under the predicative use: see p. 79 above. 
“6. Rarely as object of another preposition, instead of the verbal substan¬ 
tive or gerund. (Probably imitating French use.) ” No example is given 
from Anglo-Saxon; nor have I found any clear example. But see Chapter III, 
p. 78, above. 
Under “IV. With infinitive equivalent to a finite verb or clause,” we have 
these subdivisions in the Dictionary: — 
“15. With infinitive as complement to a substantive or pronoun, forming a compound 
object or substantive phrase, corresponding to the ‘accusative and infinitive > construction 
in Latin and Greek.” 
The Dictionary states that the prepositional infinitive is found in this construc¬ 
tion (a) “after verbs of commanding, teaching, desiring, causing, allowing, 
or the like; equivalent to a that- clause with the substantive or pronoun 
governing a verb in the subjunctive;” also “after the passive of such verbs, 
the substantive or pronoun then becoming the subject;” (5) “after verbs of 
saying, thinking, knowing, perceiving, or the like; equivalent to a ^a^-clause 
with verb in the indicative;” also “after the passive of such verbs, and after 
intransitive verbs of like meaning, as seem, happen, etc.” The Dictionary 
gives only two examples from Anglo-Saxon, one after Iceran, ‘teach/ and one 
after tcecan, ‘teach.’ But see Chapter VIII, pp. 118-119, above, where these 
and other examples are given. The Dictionary states, also, that more com¬ 
monly, after each of these groups of verbs, the simple infinitive occurs in this 
construction in Anglo-Saxon. 
“16. With infinitive after a dependent interrogative or relative; equivalent to a clause 
with may, should, etc. (Sometimes with ellipsis of whether before or in an alternative de¬ 
pendent question.) ” 
No example is given from Anglo-Saxon, but the following is given from Chau¬ 
cer’s Man of Law’s Tale, 358: “She hath no wight to whom to make hir mone.” 
