Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4020 mails)

[doc <kd4e@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Örn Hansen wrote:
> torsdag 14 oktober 2004 23:20 skrev Danny Sauer:
>
> > Don wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Believe this ??  OT' on Thu, Oct 14 at 12:00:
> >
> > > Well, there you go, "pre-ordering" stuff.  Shame on you!  The Grammar
> > > Patrol  will be around soon to see you. :D
> >
> > Get on the floor and place your hands behind your back.  The modifier
> > "soon" should not come between the infinitive phrase and the verb phrase
> > that the infinitive phrase is modifying.  "Soon" would more appropriately
> > be placed directly ahead of the verb phrase, as in "Soon, the Grammar
> > Patrol will be around to..." or "The Grammar Patrol will soon be around
> > to...".
> Actually, I think he merely forgot a comma "The Grammar Patrol will be around 
> soon, to ...".

Stop, please stop!  Yo guys are giving me nightmarish flashbacks
to high school grammar with Sister Mary Catherine!

Passing by putting the apostrophe over the "s" and getting credit for
it being correct, because I didn't remember the rule for where it 
belonged in that context, still stands as one of those small miracles
in my life!

Yeah, I know, I probably dangled or mangled a participle in that
paragraph ... whatever a participle is!  ;-)

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