The obvious example of the nonfiniteness of imperatives is the linking verb: "Be brave!" (the nonfinite form), not "Are brave" (as in "You are brave”).

 

Dick Veit

 

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Richard Veit

Department of English, UNCW

Wilmington, NC 28403-5947

910-962-3324

 

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