Questions of Grammar
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Questions of Grammar
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.
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Re: Questions of Grammar
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.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.
To really intensify an infinitive in English it is often necessary to smartly, or even savagely, sunder it.
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.
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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!
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To mangle a slogan from the 60's: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.
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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.
Regards//Larry
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
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