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Jackson6612 Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

a Christian rite (as baptism or the Eucharist) that is believed...

sacrament
1a: a Christian rite (as baptism or the Eucharist) that is believed to have been ordained by Christ and that is held to be a means of divine grace or to be a sign or symbol of a spiritual reality
[M-W's Col. Dic.]

What part of speech are the to's in the above definition?
  

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They are just parts ( particles ) of the long/full infinitive (to be) as opposed to the bare infinitive ( be ). org/wiki/Infinitive#Infinitives_in_English

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  • They are just parts ( particles ) of the long/full infinitive (to be) as opposed to the bare infinitive ( be ).
  • org/wiki/Infinitive#Infinitives_in_English
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They are just parts (particles) of the long/full infinitive (to be) as opposed to the bare infinitive (be).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive#Infinitives_in_English
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