Hi ,
This is sentence form the Manhattan flash card-
" Virginia Woolf's feminism "is hard to truly understand" unless contextualized within the mores of the highly restrained, upper-class English society of her time"
My confusion is about the structure ..
for me the same sentence , feel like saying that as " is hard to understand truly".
Does these two sentence make any difference in its meaning ?
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- robinphilip01
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Re: About a sentence.
Hey Robin,
Nice grammar catch. This is what's called a "split infinitive," and we're usually told NOT to do it in school. However, this is NOT actually a grammatical rule? It's sort of a throwback to other romance languages (such as French and Spanish), in which the infinitive is always one word. In English, the infinitive is always two words ("to run" "to jump" etc.) So it's strange to split up an infinitive with some other word, because you physically can't in French or Spanish.
But it's not a rule, so there's no actual problem here.
You can read more at any number of grammar websites, such as this one: http://grammarist.com/grammar/split-infinitives/
-t
Nice grammar catch. This is what's called a "split infinitive," and we're usually told NOT to do it in school. However, this is NOT actually a grammatical rule? It's sort of a throwback to other romance languages (such as French and Spanish), in which the infinitive is always one word. In English, the infinitive is always two words ("to run" "to jump" etc.) So it's strange to split up an infinitive with some other word, because you physically can't in French or Spanish.
But it's not a rule, so there's no actual problem here.
You can read more at any number of grammar websites, such as this one: http://grammarist.com/grammar/split-infinitives/
-t
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