From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: acm@muc.de, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something."
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aO046-0007Ey-OL@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56A65043.5070509@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:41:39 -0800)
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> "So far the object is not only lawful, but it is the mere exercise of a
> right which the law allows to every individual."
This is a different construction, since "to" is a preposition, not a
part of an infinitive. Note also that "allows" here has a direct
object, "a right".
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 21:06 To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something." Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-24 22:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-24 22:54 ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25 12:51 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-25 14:03 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-25 14:25 ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 20:10 ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25 2:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-25 15:13 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-25 15:16 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-25 16:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-25 19:47 ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-25 16:41 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-26 9:37 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-01-25 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 16:55 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-26 5:27 ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-26 9:37 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:55 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-27 0:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 23:14 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-01-26 3:07 ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-27 0:48 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 11:06 ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-27 16:31 ` Mathieu Lirzin
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