Question

Which of the following sentences makes the correct use of bare infinitive?
a)This dress made me felt bad.
b)My mother makes me eat my favourite food.
c)Your stories make me to want to visit London.
d)I make her wearing new clothes every time.

Answer 1

Hint: Bare infinitives are used in active voice sentences. Here, the word ‘to’ is not used with the verb and the second verb needs to be in its original (or base) form.

Complete answer:

 Here we can see that the first verb in context would be ‘make’ we will use ‘make’ to compare the tense of the secondary verbs used in all the options.
a)‘This dress made me felt bad’, here the main verb is ‘made’ which is in the past tense. Also, the sentence is in active voice therefore we need the second verb in its base form. The second verb is – felt, which is the past form of ‘feel’, i.e. felt is not the base form.
b)‘My mother makes me eat my favorite food’, here the main verb is ‘make’ which is in the present tense. ‘Makes’ is the third person singular form of the verb make and the second verb ‘eat’ is the base form of the verb.
c)‘Your stories make me want to visit London’, here the main verb ‘make’ is in the present tense. And there are two secondary verbs, i.e. – ‘want’ and ‘visit’. We will consider the one nearest to the verb ‘make’. Therefore, we will consider ‘want’. Here, want cannot be used as it is used with the marker ‘to’.
d)‘I make her wearing new clothes every time’, here the main verb ‘make’ is in the present tense but the second verb is in the participle form of the verb – wear.
So, as you can see only option ‘b’ fulfills the required areas to be a correct sentence using bare infinitives correctly.

Note: You can use the elimination method to remove those sentences which make no sense and after that, you can look for the correct answer among the ones that are left.