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Catenative verb

From Teflpedia

A catenative verb is a type of lexical verb which may be directly followed by another verb. In English, the subsequent verb is an infinitive, but depending on the syntactic licensing of the catenative verb, may be either a to-infinitive or a bare infinitive.

For instance "want" is a catenative verb in “I want to know the answer.”

Various catenative verbs can be strung together in a chain. e.g. “We pretended to agree to try to appear to be more helpful.” However, as the example indicates, very long chains can be hard to understand.