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To: irish guard

“Ending sentences with a preposition was another.”

That is something up with which we should not put.


850 posted on 03/09/2019 1:15:19 PM PST by mkmensinger
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To: mkmensinger
Aha! a Grammar slide!

"The safest choice is to avoid splitting infinitives." (Henry Alford, the Dean of Canterbury, in his 1864 book The Queen’s English.) He felt that:

"That is something up with which we should not put."!!

E.G.

"To boldly go where no one has gone before!"

as John DeLancy might say; "Au contraire Mon Capitain!"

"In fact, many respected writers, both before and after Alford’s time, have employed split infinitives, including Thomas Cromwell, Daniel Defoe, Lord Byron, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Gaskell, Benjamin Franklin, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.!" And Gene Roddenberry?

(Look at that...Was able to relate this back to "Q"!)

871 posted on 03/09/2019 1:51:29 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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