RULE XXIV.

The infinitive mood, or part of a sentence, is frequently put as the

nominative case to a verb, or the object of an active-transitive verb;

as, "_To play_ is pleasant;" "Boys love _to play_;" "_That warm climates

shorten life_, is reasonable to suppose;" "He does not consider _how

near he approaches to his end_."

NOTE. _To_, the sign of the infinitive mood, is sometimes properly

omitted; as, "I heard him _say_ it;" instead of, "to _say_ it."

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