Many decades ago (in junior high school) I had a pen-pal in Toulouse. She relentlessly corrected my French grammar. When I didn't respond she sent pictures.
RP on a hobby forum, may not be considered proper English by most Englishmen. I'm sat in my pants man. My English pants 🙂
False. This is the kind of prescriptive adherence to rules up with which I will not put. 🙂
It’s absolutely fine to split the infinitive, and sometimes it’s the more natural way to do it.
The whole video is good, and on topic for this thread, but the bit on split infinitives starts around the 12 minute mark. He also doesn’t just say “it’s fine” but also gives the reasons why many of these “rules” were introduced.
It’s worth a watch for everyone who thinks that the rules of the language are set in stone.
Had a colleague at the office that did return my emails with corrections and points. All in good jest but she was very sensitive about correct language. After a time it was easy to guess from her behaviour how badly written an email was that she was reading.
She never sent me pictures however 😉
She never sent me pictures however 😉
Back then it only took a week or so to correspond. I did reply. Even though I was a "Scientific Honors" track student, my best grades were in French and Latin.