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How To Use The Infinitive Form in OET Writing

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Did you know that every English verb will have 3-5 di erent forms? The
minimum is 3 forms and the maximum is 5 forms. Some can have 4
forms. To keep it simple, let’s look at the following brie y.

Examples of verbs Examples of verbs Examples of verbs

with 3 forms with 4 forms with 5 forms

Cut Walk Eat

Cuts Walks Eats

Cutting Walked Ate
Walking
Eating
Eaten

Put Cry Fall

Puts Cries Falls

Putting Cried Fell
Crying Falling
Fallen

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Hit Swallow Do

Hits Swallows Does

Hitting Swallowed Did
Swallowing Doing
Done

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The in nitive is the verb in its basic form. This means that you do not
have an ‘s’ at the end, you do not make it the past tense and you do
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not add –ing to it. Let’s take one example of the verb ‘change’ (as in,
“you need to change your dressing twice a day”). How many forms of
‘change’ can we have?
Change
Changes
Changing
Changed

Can you spot the in nitive above? Yes, it is the most basic form of the
verb – ‘change’.
In nitives are often preceded by the word ‘to’, hence, it is normally
called the ‘to + in nitive’ structure. So we say ‘to change’, ‘to eat’, ‘to
take’, etc.
To change √
To changes X
To changing X
To changed X

In your OET Writing sub-test (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-

sample-referral-letter/), learn to use the ‘to + in nitive’ structure when
you give reasons for an action. For instance, consider the examples
below.
Action – taking pills. Reason – help to sleep
She took the pills to help her sleep at night.√
She took the pills to helping her sleep at night. X

Action – have the documents. Reason – obtain license

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The documents are necessary to obtain a license.√

The documents are necessary to obtained a license. X

Action – prescription. Reason – ease pain

The doctor will prescribe something to ease the pain.√
The doctor will prescribe something to easing the pain. X

Action – administer insulin. Reason – control glucose

The insulin shot was given to control her glucose level.√
The insulin shot was given to controls her glucose level. X

Action – have a conference. Reason – make something a priority

The purpose of the conference was to make blood safety a priority. √
The purpose of the conference was making blood safety a priority. X

Keep this in mind and the ‘to + in nitive’ can be a useful structure you
can use for OET Writing (https://edubenchmark.com/blog/oet-writing/).
Happy writing!

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