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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (37)	1/1/1998 7:34:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4710

Penni: I've taken the name of the book and hope to get it soon. Please do "go on" and know that you would be a very desirable guest at any party I am attending. With regard to the split infinitive, I agree that sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. There is no reason to have an arbitrary rule preventing its use. The "dangling participle" is also not an absolute, although I detest hearing, "Where is it at?". My mother used to answer such a question thus: "It's between the "a" and the "t"". Speaking of dangling participles, there is a story, perhaps apocryphal, about Winston Churchill, who when being chastised for his use of a dangling participle, responded: "Yes, that is certainly a situation up with which we cannot put." A marvelous put down. Those Brits are so good at it. Jack