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To: BenLurkin

LOL! I like the gun. She’s a GRAMMAR NAZI!


52 posted on 04/06/2016 1:37:37 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
And like all Nazis, wrong. Fowler, and Gowers are quite firm in viewing the people who made the rule against split infinitives were a bunch of jerks. Gowers does consider splitting should be avoided in extreme examples, What is an extreme example?
The tenant hereby agrees:
(i) to pay the said rent;
(ii) to properly clean all the windows;
(iii) to at all times properly empty all closets;
(iv) to immediately any litter or disorder shall have been made by him or for his purpose on the staircase or landings or any other part of the said building or garden remove the same.
How awkwardly to avoid split infinitives
206 posted on 04/06/2016 6:31:59 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx)
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