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| From: | David Kastrup |
| Subject: | Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? |
| Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:30:52 -0000 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes: > Yes, by their very nature, infinitives are split in English: "to love" > vs. "amare." There's no room in the atom "amare" to insert anything. So where do you split the infinitive in "Don't make me cry"? I was not aware that "to" was a part of the infinitive proper. -- David Kastrup
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