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Please guys can we lay off the split infinitives thread? its such a well-worn path and we all know there's no resolution - don't we all agree that sometimes it sounds more natural, but that if you're writing to or for a crusty curmudgeon they're going to notice it, so you must recast the sentence?
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Being pedantic about words can be amusing of course!
Years ago I was working in a Children's Library. The library staff planned to put together a list of books to encourage young readers... it was to have been called
"Good Books to run into". However a "higher authority"in the establishment wanted to change the title to "Good Books into which to run" Needless to say eventually we used neither title...
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Max and friends:
I've found another list of "Rules for Writers" -- enjoy!
- Don’t use no double negatives.
- Make each pronoun agree with their antecedent.
- Join clauses good like a conjunction should.
- About them sentence fragments
- Verbs has to agree with their subjects
- Just between you and I, case is important too.
- Don’t use commas, which aren’t necessary.
- Don’t write run-on sentences they are hard to read.
- Try to not ever split infinitives.
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Thanks, my favourite is the "antecedent" line.
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