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From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 16:34:22 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ias2ue$dtr$1@reader1.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cMWdnVIcw6z-PjfRnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@sysmatrix.net

In article <cMWdnVIcw6z-PjfRnZ2dnUVZ_uadnZ2d@sysmatrix.net>,
B. T. Raven <nihil@nihilo.net> wrote:
>David Kastrup wrote:
>> "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Yes, by their very nature, infinitives are split in English: "to love"
>>> vs. "amare." There's no room in the atom "amare" to insert anything.
>> 
>> So where do you split the infinitive in "Don't make me cry"?  I was not
>> aware that "to" was a part of the infinitive proper.
>> 
>
>Some say it is "the full infinitive" and some say it ain't. Some even
>say there is no infinitive in English, only the plain form that also
>serves for imperative and subjunctive (e.g. be that as it may). All
                                             ^^            ^^^


"Be" is (of course?) in the subjunctive.  What about the "may"?


Thanks!

David




      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-03 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03  3:06 emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Xah Lee
2010-10-03 11:14 ` Uday Reddy
2010-10-03 19:29   ` Russ P.
2010-10-03 19:38     ` Jay Belanger
2010-10-03 20:50       ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 22:57         ` Russ P.
2010-10-04 18:48     ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-05  0:53       ` Russ P.
     [not found]         ` <ias317$dtr$2@reader1.panix.com>
2010-11-04 19:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:10             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 17:48       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  1:16         ` Sean Sieger
2010-12-10 16:04           ` ken
2010-10-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-10-03 22:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-10-04  6:52   ` David Kastrup
2010-10-05  4:02     ` B. T. Raven
2010-11-03 16:34       ` David Combs [this message]

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