Timeline for Should an infinitive be used in "the police made everyone to leave"?

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Feb 10, 2013 at 20:22	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 25 characters in body
Dec 21, 2012 at 14:19	comment	added	tchrist♦		@Sudhir Yes, it is better to post that as a separate question. The verb confess to always takes an -ing form as a verbal complement. As mentioned, you must for the most part learn each of these separately.
Dec 21, 2012 at 14:16	comment	added	tchrist♦		@BarrieEngland My initial posting made passing comparison to modal. I’ve now expanded that to better retain all the examples of this sort of thing in one place for future searchers.
Dec 21, 2012 at 14:15	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added modals including quasi-modals; added examples and exceptions.
Dec 21, 2012 at 10:14	vote	accept	Sudhir
Dec 21, 2012 at 9:16	comment	added	Barrie England		These examples, incidentally, make nonsense of any claim that the particle to is part of the verb.
Dec 21, 2012 at 7:57	comment	added	Barrie England		Plus modal verbs.
Dec 21, 2012 at 7:37	comment	added	tchrist♦		@Sudhir No, it is not correct. One confesses to having done something, or just to doing something. So he confessed to forging or confessing to having forged. But this should really be a second question.
Dec 21, 2012 at 7:22	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1178 characters in body
Dec 21, 2012 at 6:41	history	answered	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0