Grammar rock
Oct. 29th, 2002 09:15 amListening to the radio this morning, I heard yet another infinitive unthinkingly split, and started wondering if anyone other than a couple of junior high school grammar teachers really cares about not splitting infinitives (except in certain extraordinary circumstances). I think it's gotten to the point that it sounds right to people most of the time to split them; putting the modifier elsewhere now sounds "wrong."
And I wondered about the poor forlorn subjunctive, something I like to use appropriately (it came clear when I took French), but perhaps I have become a grammar fuddy-duddy on this issue?
I still can't abide some of the misspellings I see and am not going to stop being bothered by them.
At least I call it skim milk, I suppose.
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And I wondered about the poor forlorn subjunctive, something I like to use appropriately (it came clear when I took French), but perhaps I have become a grammar fuddy-duddy on this issue?
I still can't abide some of the misspellings I see and am not going to stop being bothered by them.
At least I call it skim milk, I suppose.
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