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It will likely rain
Rain *is infinitive in this construction.
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It will likely rain
Rain *is infinitive in this construction.
Seņor Faldaje, I'm gonna need this 'splained to me. If you get rid of the adverb, the sentence just reads "It will rain," which is just the future form of the verb. Are you saying that this is the infinitive because it takes the same form as "to rain," or is the future formed by adding "will" to the infinitive, and I've just never heard it described that way? Or some other explanation that's likely obvious but that I'm missing?
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is the future formed by adding "will" to the infinitive?
The future is formed by adding "will" to the infinitive. Or by adding the infinitive to "will", whichever. There are two forms of the infinitive in English, one with to and the other bare naked.
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Thre's an easy way to tell the difference. When you are supine you are lying on your s(u)pine.
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And when supine, you can hold soup in your navel.
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And when supine, you can hold soup in your navel.Presuming innie, rather than outie. [Cross-threading to "shapely words": Connie, are the technical 'shroom terms umbilicate and umbonate?  ]
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And when supine, you can hold soup in your navel.But doesn't that get the salt wet that I put there for the celery? 
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Today's bartleby quotation-of-the-day, regarding supine:
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice ... -- Grover Cleveland
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