Idiomatic expressions


Control, inhibition, inevitability

  1. cannot help $+$ gerund-participial clause,
    cannot but $+$ bare-infinitival clause:
    low control, failed inhibition, inevitability
  2. be bound $+$ to-infinitival clause:
    situational inevitability
  3. burst out $+$ gerund-participial clause:
    failed inhibition