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DaveH:
Just thought I would mention,

"to boldly go where one has gone ........."

Is classed as dangling ones participle. :poke: Just in case no one knew :lol:

I think I must be bored  :palm:

DaveH

Put the k in new as per Marv's  :D

mklotz:
Yes, and the past tense of 'know' is still spelled 'knew'.

Bluechip:
I think you must be ....  :scratch:

But then ..

'Tis far better to have dangled and fell off, than never to have dangled at all' ...

What happened to split infinitives anyway ????...

BC

Ooops! Sorry Marv, should be 'fallen off' ....  :doh:

andyf:
I don't think there's a participle in there, Dave, but it does contain a split infinitive. Victorian pedants trying to force English to conform to Latin grammar decreed that what Geoff Chaucer, Bill Shakespeare and everyone else had been saying for centuries was wrong, and that an adverb shouldn't be interposed in the middle of an infinitive. They would say "boldly to go" or "to go boldly".

They had similar ideas about dangling participles, and thus would hate "A participle is not something you should end a sentence with."

No-one took much notice of the pedants, thank goodness.


Andy

DaveH:


--- Quote from: Bluechip on June 06, 2011, 01:21:42 PM ---
What happened to split infinitives anyway ????...



--- End quote ---

It is still there:

"to boldly go where no man has gone before". Here, the adverb "boldly" splits the full infinitive "to go"


DaveH

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