Now that you have freed prepositions to bravely be sentence endings, you might clarify Miss Thistlebottom’s split infinitive rule. — Pam Rider, East Village, San Diego Joining the preposition rule in ...
DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T column. I so enjoy, appreciate, and support your language ...
SPLIT infinitives. Can't live with them, can't live without them. But what on earth is one, and should we care that much? Here beginnith the lesson. The infinitive is the part of the verb expressed by ...
It is a development sure to deeply disconcert those who consider themselves sticklers for English grammar. But Captain Kirk might well be delighted. Because split infinitives – where an adverb is put ...
Nairobi — English has no formal infinitives. We recognise one only by the word "to" before a verb. But since the word is separate from the verb, why is it wrong to "split" the infinitive? Our high ...
NOT before time, the proliferation of the split infinitive in spoken English and its almost tripling since the early 1990s is announced by researchers. ("To actually split an infinitive on the ...
Time travel always seemed to me a silly idea — at least as it’s portrayed in movies and on TV. Sure, it’s fun to ponder whether a guy can be his own grandpa. But time-travel movies always fall apart ...
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