A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles
Volume 5, Syntax (fourth volume)

Table of Contents

1. Introductory

2. Simple nexus as ordinary object

3. Simple nexus as object of result

4. Various remarks on nexus-objects

5. Simple nexus as regimen of a preposition

6. A simple nexus as tertiary

7. Nexus-substantives

8. The gerund. Substantive nature

9. The gerund. Verbal nature

10. The infinitive

11. The infinitive. Subject and predicative

12. Infinitive as object

13. To-infinitive as object

14. Infinitive governed by prepositions

15. The infinitive as tertiary

16. The infinitive as tertiary

17. Infinitives of reaction and specification

18. Subject + infinitive as object of main verb

19. Subject + infinitive in other employments

20. Final remarks on infinitives

21. Clauses as tertiaries

22. Implied dependent nexus

23. Negation

14. Requests

15. Questions