--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Nelson" <nelsonriddle2001@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Nelson" > <nelsonriddle2001@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], Rick Archer > <fairfieldlife@> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Remember that story I posted about a week ago which I > entitled "A > > > > > > Story for Judy and Barry"? Neither of you commented on it. > > > > > > > > > > I thought it was trite and simplistic, actually, Rick, > > > > > and not at all to the point. Neither Barry nor I is an > > > > +++ Does "I is" sound right? Some of the modern English > seems to be > > > > getting out of hand. N. > > > > > > Good question. "Barry am" can't be right, though. > > > > > > I had originally written "are," but that's not correct, > > > because "neither/nor" takes a singular verb. > > > > > > I can't think of any way to get around "Barry am" > > > or "I is." Suggestions? > > > > > +++ Maybe Barry and I are not- we are not (collective) not sure. > > Having failed English one year in high school and, getting > > remarkably poor grades in it, I have observed that some of the > > sentence structure I see in the news papers would get you thrown out > > of school altogether in the early fifties. > > It looks like no one ever heard of a split infinitive which is a > > major gripe and, I am expecting to see "throw the horse over the > fence > > some hay" any day now. N. > > > > "To go boldly" sounds stupid compared to "to boldy go." The reason > why we "can't" split an infinitive is because Latin simply CANNOT. > English CAN, and the verb is "to boldly go," which has pretty much > the same meaning as "to go boldly" or "boldly to go," but is it's own > verb in English. > > The grammarians have been wrong for what, a thousand years? That's > OK, just think of it as the last gasp grasp the Roman Church has had > on the English language. > +++ I didn't take Latin so maybe that would explain my problem. Took French instead and got low marks in that too but can still read a little of it. Back then,an adverb had to come after the verb but in the meantime I guess they could have changed it. N.
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