tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024110476711269686.post2244070893882191745..comments2023-03-06T11:04:58.042+00:00Comments on Ladywell Village Improvement Group: Mayor Bullock set to abandon Church Grove traveller siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024110476711269686.post-75985325937044205822012-02-23T19:11:34.495+00:002012-02-23T19:11:34.495+00:00Good news about the Mayor's decision for aband...Good news about the Mayor's decision for abandonment! But is it final and what might happen to the site instead? With this respite, on a lighter note: as we are not speaking Latin, what is wrong with using split infinitives? The Fowler brothers in the authoritative ‘The Kings English’ (1907) described the aversion to split infinitives as a “curious superstition” and two decades later in the Dictionary of ‘Modern English Usage’ wrote that writers who avoid split infinitives are “bogy-haunted creatures.”. A split infinitive can be necessary to emphasise or clarify: ‘they wanted her to dance beautifully” and ‘he intended to really enjoy the feast’ are examples of where splitting and non-splitting respectively would have been clumsy or unclear.<br />Was Byron (1788-1824) a poetic failure in writing “To slowly trace the forest’s shady scene….” in Solitude? In brief, the stylistic consensus is to not split the majority of infinitives but to be free to split where emphasis, style or clarity dictate this to be necessary. That said, the excerpt from the Council’s text did appear to be a case of the runaway splits - but was it intentionally necessary or just inadvertent error?GrammarGrillernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024110476711269686.post-64296743881212159942012-02-08T14:31:37.919+00:002012-02-08T14:31:37.919+00:00Nice site for a community garden . . . .Nice site for a community garden . . . .Longtime Ladywell residentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4024110476711269686.post-11940326215100943652012-02-08T14:26:02.312+00:002012-02-08T14:26:02.312+00:00To boldly go...somewhere else! Good news.To boldly go...somewhere else! Good news.valhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08784717652044574470noreply@blogger.com