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Date Posted: 16:35:23 09/26/09 Sat
Author: Gilly
Subject: Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives
In reply to: Edie 's message, "Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives" on 08:56:12 09/26/09 Sat

I spli tmy infinitives when speaking but if I am writing something formal I do try not to but will cheerfully end a sentance with a verb, such as in "to whom they spoke" rather than "who they spoke to", which is probably one of the things that gets up the noses of the youngsters for whom I type the reports because I change their words when I type. Can't help it, that's the way I was taught, and when we were taught to type etc, it was still very formal language that was used in business letters. The lads on the whole don't worry, the doctors are quite happy to have me alter their grammar, it's just one of the girls who does object, silly lass. One of the others says that when I'm talking she just sits and listens because I use big words but use them as if they are quite normal in my speech, but again that's how we were taught. We were taught the meaning of words and how to use them. I have to say thought that the grammar school I went to was an extremely bad school. If the headmistress liked you then school was fine, but if she didn't she would quite deliberately make your life miserable right the way through your schooling, even to the extent that she would deliberately (and I do mean deliberately) wreck your chances of following the career you wanted to take up.

Gilly

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Replies:

Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 01:30:02 09/27/09 Sun
- Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 13:07:45 09/27/09 Sun
  - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 14:59:41 09/27/09 Sun
    - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Gilly, 16:28:13 09/27/09 Sun
      - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 05:46:17 09/30/09 Wed
    - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 05:38:45 09/30/09 Wed
      - Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 07:08:01 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Dave in Kg., 11:00:09 09/30/09 Wed
        Re: Mr McMillan and split infinitives -- Ani, 12:59:50 09/30/09 Wed