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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Accuracy of the rule

Can you comment on the accuracy of this rule I have heard about... you NEVER separate the verb "to be" with something like "also?" (Even though that's the way people talk.)
  

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Anonymous Can you comment on the accuracy of this rule I have heard about... ) Yes, the rule has existed in traditional grammar for a long time, but it has always been subject to debate. The history of this rule goes back a couple hundred years to linguists who tried to make prescriptive rules of English grammar.

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  • Anonymous Can you comment on the accuracy of this rule I have heard about...
  • ) Yes, the rule has existed in traditional grammar for a long time, but it has always been subject to debate.
  • The history of this rule goes back a couple hundred years to linguists who tried to make prescriptive rules of English grammar.
  • Here is a long description of this rule.
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Anonymous Can you comment on the accuracy of this rule I have heard about... you NEVER separate the verb "to be" with something like "also?" (Even though that's the way people talk.)
Yes, the rule has existed in traditional grammar for a long time, but it has always been subject to debate.
The history of this rule goes back a couple hundred years to lingu
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Anonymousyou NEVER separate the verb "to be" with something like "also?"
If you're talking about what I think you're talking about, then "to be" is not at all special. The rule applies to all infinitives, so you never put a word between "to" and any verb when these elements form an infinitive. "to take", "to listen", "to find", "to do", ... Putting a
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please can you tell me how I improve my essay writing
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Please, can you tell me how I can improve my essay writing?

You can make a big improvement by starting each sentence with a capital letter, and using punctuation.

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You can improve your punctuation by placing commas in the correct locations: "...starting each sentence with a capital letter and using punctuation."
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People think that memorizing conventions makes them smart Emotion: smile I guess if I want to reason better all I have to do is memorize a lot of
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Anonymousif I want to reason better all I have to do is memorize a lot of grammar rules
The memorization of the rules of grammar has nothing to do with your power of reasoning. It has everything to do with how to best express the ideas that your reasoning has produced. If your arguments are flawed and baseless, but your grammar is perfect, your essay will not
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It was sarcasm. The way people seem to take pride on correcting grammar mistakes makes it seem like people almost think that.
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AnonymousThe way people seem to ...
It comes with the territory. This is a grammar forum, you know. People come here because, believe it or not, they want to have their grammar corrected!
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Regarding you in particular, I think you made some comment about learning cost vs costed when you were three years old. It looks like there is pride as well as correcting going on there. I guess if a person can just manage to remember that when they are three they are set for life compared to most people. Well, if you are able to believe that I guess that's a good way to manage your self-esteem
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