Blogs about: Split Infinitives
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From the NYT Science Times yesterday, in “ ‘Cured of AIDS’? Not Yet” by Donald G. McNeil Jr.: “We should seek out, test and get people into treatment as soon as we possibly can,” Dr. [Anth… more →
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wrote 3 weeks ago: From the NYT Science Times yesterday, in “ ‘Cured of AIDS’? Not Yet” by Donald G. McNeil … more →
As she is spoke
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wrote 3 weeks ago: As I am presently otherwise occupied, there will be very few posts in the next few weeks, but I woul … more →
The Five Worst Grammar Rules
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wrote 1 month ago: People who study grammar fall into two main camps: the prescriptivists and the descriptivists. Presc … more →
To Wrongly Split
wrote 1 month ago: Captain James T Kirk did it, George Bernard Shaw championed it and yet most of us were taught to nev … more →
Starting with split infinitives
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wrote 2 months ago: Ten years ago, I met someone who changed my life. It was my supervisor at university. I thought I wo … more →
Why I write hadn’t a lot
wrote 2 months ago: So I do contractions in narrative sentences quite a lot, when other people might not. Like hadn’t, … more →
So, I’m going to start my sentences like this. So what?
wrote 2 months ago: So, I’m unbuttoning my uptight grammar says Gill Booles So split infinitives? I can take ‘em or leav … more →
How the Superheroes of Literature can save you from the Grammar Nazis
wrote 2 months ago: By Cath Murphy We’ve all met a Grammar Nazi: those people who think it is their iron-clad duty not t … more →
To Blindly Lead The Blind: Why Only Some Grammar Rules Are Breakable
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wrote 3 months ago: [You can also read this on the Huffington Post.] A misguided debate is raging over English grammar. … more →
'going to' vs. 'gonna': The Cagematch
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wrote 3 months ago: I was eating out with some friends the other night when one of them stopped the conversation to anno … more →
Why you should ignore Strunk and White (and other writing advice)…mostly
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wrote 4 months ago: The Elements of Style, by Will Strunk and E.B. White, has been the Bible of English style for two ge … more →
on the difference between linguists and grammar snobs
wrote 4 months ago: People often believe that I am the type of person to whom it would be unsafe to write anything conta … more →
'To Boldly Go': Most Famous Split Infinitive
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wrote 4 months ago: Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: … more →
HOW WE'RE BEST TAPPED
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wrote 5 months ago: A really good thing about taking guitar lessons is that apparently lots of kids take them. I found t … more →
To split or not to split...
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wrote 5 months ago: I love grammar – always have – because grammar equates English to math. For me, math is … more →
Week at a glance ~ 12/3/12 to 12/7/12
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wrote 5 months ago: Monday (tomorrow) is our team day! For those of you participating in the activity to write our team … more →
To Split or Not to Split
wrote 6 months ago: I’m sure you have all been warned at some time not to split infinitives when you write. But do you … more →
Avoiding a split infinitive
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wrote 7 months ago: From the 12/3/11 Economist, p. 43, in “Marijuana in California and Colorado: Highs and laws”: In Oct … more →
Split Infinitives: To boldly go where no man has gone before
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