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Nonfinite verb

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A nonfinite verb is a verb that is not finite. Nonfinite verbs cannot perform action as the root of an independent clause. Most nonfinite verbs found in English are infinitives, participles and gerunds. (They are sometimes called "verbals", but that term has traditionally applied only to participles and gerunds.) Additional nonfinite forms found in some other languages include converbs, gerundives and supines. Nonfinite verbs typically are not inflected by grammatical tense, and they have little inflection for other grammatical categories. Formally, they lack the three grammatical features (mood, tense and voice) that are "associated, independently or relatively, with...the act of predication." Generally, they also lack a subject dependent. One or more nonfinite verbs may be associated with a finite verb in a finite clause: the elements of a verb catena, or verb chain. Because English lacks most inflectional morphology, the finite and the nonfinite forms of a verb may appear the same in a given context.

English Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfinite_verb

Spanish wikipedia http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verboide

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