This infinitive form is not used as a noun, but it is used in compound verbs, serial verb constructions, and before certain ( not all ) verb endings.
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In poetry, archaic or regional speech, or invectives, the order of the compound verb elements can switch, and with them the position of the doubling pronoun will change.
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Generally, the term " complex predicate " usually includes N + V compounds, whereas the term " compound verb " is usually reserved for V + V compounds.
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To place a compound verb form ( or its affirmation ) in focus, it may be enough to place the main complement of the verb " egin "'do '.
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Other tenses may use compound verbs, where the conjugated form of, usually, " bod " ( to be ) precedes the subject and other verb-nouns come after the subject.
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Compound verbs are to be distinguished from serial verbs which typically signify a sequence of actions, and in which the verbs are relatively equal in semantic and grammatical weight.
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Whether gerundive forms like " went crashing " are compound verbs is controversial in English; many linguists prefer to treat " crashing " as a nominal in its gerundive form.
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In all remaining situations the pronoun is placed before the first element of the compound verb and takes the unstressed form, as in " i-am dat " and " le-am dat ".
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The suffixes may be attached to the verb; the agent of the verb in an ergative construction; an adverb; a prepositional or postpositional phrase; and in a compound verb to its Complement.
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A compound verb is also called a " complex predicate " because the semantics, as formally modeled by a predicate, is determined by the primary verb, though both verbs appear in the surface form.
