toのつかない不定詞を原形不定詞と言う。 An infinitive without a 'to' attached is called a bare infinitive. 次の動詞はｔｏ不定詞だけを目的語にとります。 The following verbs only take the to-infinitive as their object. needless to sayは不定詞の慣用表現として紹介されることが多いです。 'needless to say' is often introduced as an idiomatic expression in the infinitive. 動詞helpはto不定詞・原形不定詞の両方をとりますが、くだけた文体では原形不定詞が多いとされており、この例文でもそれが使われています。 The verb 'help' takes to-infinitives and bare infinitives but bare infinitives are said to be the most common in casual text; as also used in this example sentence. 不定詞の形容詞的用法には２種類あり、①限定用法、②叙述用法。②はもちろん主格補語です。 There are two ways of using the infinitive as an adjective, 1. attributive, 2. predicative. Naturally 2. is a subject complement.
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