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Questions of Grammar
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:08 am
by Dr. Goodword
This is the forum for questions of grammar and usage. If your infinitives are split, your participles dangle, and you keep finding prepositions at the ends of your sentences, bring your problems here to the Good Doctor. He will attend them as time allows.
Re: Questions of Grammar
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:17 pm
by Stargzer
This is the forum for questions of grammar and usage. If your infinitives are split, your participles dangle, and you keep finding prepositions at the ends of your sentences, bring your problems here to the Good Doctor. He will attend them as time allows.
But I thought that, Winston Churchill notwithstanding, a preposition was no longer a bad thing to end a sentence with. Doing so does not imply that good grammar is what one has a lack of.
To really intensify an infinitive in English it is often necessary to smartly, or even savagely, sunder it.
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:04 am
by anders
The WC reference should go down the drain. He never said so. Have a look at
www.languagelog.com at its archives for December 12, 2004.
myths that we NEED!
Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 2:10 pm
by KatyBr
just as the Cherry tree story in the George Washington lore is probably not true, but is necessary so is the Winston Chruchill story, Please do not throw solvent on my favorite Anecdotes!
Katy
::)
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:33 pm
by anders
Always looking for solutions, my favourite solvent right now is ethanol, despite its mind-altering effects and other health hazards.
WUI, specifically of the C2H5OH in the very nice red South African Drostdy-Hof.
(For those of you who are new to it: Writing Under the Influence)
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:55 pm
by Stargzer
Always looking for solutions, my favourite solvent right now is ethanol, despite its mind-altering effects and other health hazards.
WUI, specifically of the C2H5OH in the very nice red South African Drostdy-Hof.
(For those of you who are new to it: Writing Under the Influence)
To mangle a slogan from the 60's:
"if you're not part of the solution you're part of the precipitate!"
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:23 pm
by M. Henri Day
...
"if you're not part of the solution you're part of the precipitate!"
Liked that !
Henri
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 4:56 pm
by Stargzer
I saw that years ago on a button for sale at the Balticon sci-fi convention. Needless to say I copied the text rather than spring for the button.
As a chemistry major I liked it, too.