Infinitives and Indirect Statements

What are Indirect Statements?

• Reports something that someone feels, perceives, sees, hopes, etc.
• Always includes a head verb
• The subject is in the accustaive case
• Verb is always in the infinitive. Example: Amare  

Commonly used head verbs

• scio,scire: to know
• spero,sperare: to hope
• puto,putare: I think
• sentio,sentire: to feel
• pro certo habere: the be certain

Indirect statement examples

• He hopes that he will get a perfect score.
• She did not know how to solve the problem.
• Luke was certain that he was going to win. 
• Bobby felt that the game was unfair.           

Infinitives

• Present Active: to _____, the 2nd principal Part
• Present Passive: to be ____ed, 2nd principal part - e + i
• Perfect Active: to have _____ed, the 3rd principle part + sse
• Perfect Passive: to have been _____ed, 4th principal part with esse
• Future Active: to be about to ______, Future Active Participle with esse

Infinitive examples

• Present Active: parare= to prepare
• Present Passive: parari= to be prepared
• Perfect Active: monuisse= to have warned
• Perfect Passive: monitus esse= to have been warned
• Future Active: moniturus esse= to be about to be warned