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Originally Posted by Graham
For example the difference between "go boldly" and "boldly go" is only of interest to those who think that English should be like Classical Latin where you don't split infinitives, but English is *not* Classical Latin, despite the attempts of some people to force it into that mould, so it's pointless.
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*groan* my philosophy a-level teacher used to have a thing about split infinitives... it became a joke between us.....he would correct my split infinitives in every essay......and when he had an essay he had given to us to mark (to see it's philosophical merit) i used to correct his...it became a bit of a joke between us.
but i agree with graham some of the questions were dubious...
a while ago i was helping my cousin (who was 10 at the time) with her english home work and she was doing similar to the questions in the quiz, but had the missing words at the top of the page; i was discusted to see that one of the sentences actually made no sense. The teacher was, supposed, to be teaching the kids good grammar and sentence building when she herself had made a sentence which made no sense :pp