So there is not an inherent trade-off between government and freedom. Much of what government does is not coercive at all, and expansion of government programs is not going to lead us down a slippery slope to totalitarian rule. But all of this is not to deny that some government activities do curtail our freedom.
factitive. adj. 1. (Grammar) grammar denoting a verb taking a direct object as well as a noun in apposition, as for example elect in they elected John president, where John is the direct object and president is the complement.
A verbal construction made up of the particle to and the base form of a verb, with or without modifiers, complements, and objects. An infinitive phrase can function as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb, and it can appear in various places in a sentence. See Examples and Observations, below. See also: 1  Infinitive. 2  Infinitive Clause. 3  Catenative Verb. 4  Exercise in Identifying Infinitive Phrases. 5  Passive Infinitive. 6  Split Infinitive. 7  To-Infinitive.