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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:10 PM Original message |
Disliking the overuse of infinite verbs in writing, I wonder if anyone else feels the same way? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. What are "inifite verbs"? |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:17 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Verbs that get one inifite. Like, you know, a fight over spelling. |
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kiva (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-31-08 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
3. Sitting in front of her laptop, she pauses to consider her true |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. guilty. |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
5. Don't you mean |
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jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:06 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Passive voice would really go for the triple incoherency score. |
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SOteric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-01-08 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
7. I've long thought the overuse of infinite verbs |
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