Ohhh, but the Mississippi boys!ABx wrote:Ah, so that's why you're gay.. you know you could have just movedel padre wrote:Do NOT, I repeat "Do NOT", mess with Mississippi gals.
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You definitely have me beat. I'm probably pretty shaky on all of those. In fact, I frequently get called out on grammar rules when I teach at the writing lab, so I've taken to reading grammar books. My favorite so far is Style by Joseph Williams. He breaks it down into essential and optional grammar. Split infinitives? Optional.joelbct wrote:less/fewer, farther/further, can/may, well/good, subjunctive mood... the idiom ones are great too... different from instead of different than, etc.... not to mention pronoun agreement, parallel comparisons, the list goes on...
I think I want to marry him.
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"To go boldly where no one has gone before" just doesn't have the same oomph.Mary R wrote:Split infinitives? Optional
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True story:
Yesterday, the COO entered the hallway shortly after 5 p.m. & marveled at a group of programmers standing around.
I asked him, "Hey, do you know where everyone's got off to?"
He pointed at me and said in a loud voice, "How many times have I told you not to end with a split infinitive?!"
I replied, "If you're about to, I'll say 'once', provisionally."
He walked up to me and said, "No, no. You did it wrong. You were supposed to reply, 'OK, do you know where everyone's got off to, Asshole?'"
Yesterday, the COO entered the hallway shortly after 5 p.m. & marveled at a group of programmers standing around.
I asked him, "Hey, do you know where everyone's got off to?"
He pointed at me and said in a loud voice, "How many times have I told you not to end with a split infinitive?!"
I replied, "If you're about to, I'll say 'once', provisionally."
He walked up to me and said, "No, no. You did it wrong. You were supposed to reply, 'OK, do you know where everyone's got off to, Asshole?'"
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Brandon, what better way to be polite than to make the good deputy a cuppa.. Sheesh, where are your manners!brandon wrote:Next fun tea headline.
"Miss. woman gets shot in head, makes tea"
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To say happily that split infinitives are optional is pure madness!Mary R wrote:You definitely have me beat. I'm probably pretty shaky on all of those. In fact, I frequently get called out on grammar rules when I teach at the writing lab, so I've taken to reading grammar books. My favorite so far is Style by Joseph Williams. He breaks it down into essential and optional grammar. Split infinitives? Optional.joelbct wrote:less/fewer, farther/further, can/may, well/good, subjunctive mood... the idiom ones are great too... different from instead of different than, etc.... not to mention pronoun agreement, parallel comparisons, the list goes on...
I think I want to marry him.
I like misplaced modifiers too...
"Having been thrown in the air, Timmy caught the frisbee!"
or
"The young girl was walking the dog in a short skirt."
strunk n white and chicago manual of style are the standby's, right...