What is an infinitive complement?

It's hard to know whether you mean an infinitive used as a complement (I want to understand this sentencebetter) or the complement of an infinitive (I want to understand this sentence better).

Maybe someone else knows intuitively what you're referring to.

CJ

can you give an example of complement?? the uses of the infinitive

Read what CalifJim said in the post above yours.

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i really don't know exactly the "how" and the "why" the following examples are called infinitive complement so, study it by observing my examples:

here are some examples of infinitive complements:

It's important to memorize your pin number.
It's sometimes helpful to eat chicken soup.

(Anyways, the words in bold letters are the infinitive complements, o

Dear teachers,
Can you help me to understand what is an infinitive complement?
Give me some exmples abot this?
I am going t teach my students this .
Thanks a lot
Dao

Here's some more: http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic22363.html

I am an English teacher and I would like assistance on infinitive complements

Hi Anon

Have you read the rest of this thread? If what has already been posted in this thread has not helped you, I would suggest you come up with a few sentences that have infinitives in them and then post those here for discussion.