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adj. - (of verbs) not limited in tense, person or number.

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  • He decided to leave the question of infinite and non-finite beings alone for the present.
  • In the case of Computers, there are all sorts of tricks we use to establish a non-finite Virtual Memory.
  • Lots of people don't realize that subjects of non-finite verbs are in the objective case, just like in Latin.
  • Incidentally, there seems to be some uncertainty as to what this area of grammar (where verbs are followed by other, non-finite, verbs) is called.
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