<span>Infinitive phrases don’t contribute to the dreary
mood of this short passage from the novel “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens.
Infinitive phrases are consisted form the infinitive form of a verb plus any
complements (often direct object) or/and modifiers (often adverb) and in this
short passage there are none of them, so they can’t contribute to the mood.</span>
They are known as stage directions for plays and other theater arts
Are we just supposed to read it or is there supposed to be a question?
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
