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...split infinitive is a natural English locution found in the best writers (e. g.. Byron, Carlyle, Browning). Greek used singular verbs with neuter plural subjects: the English tendency to do the opposite is caused by psychological and linguistic forces whose subtlety and complexity Dr. McClenahan probably never dreamed of, and an arbitrary interpretation of which even a trained linguistic scientist might hesitate to attempt...
...Education last week fell that same stern gaze when Dr. McClenahan, a member since 1931, uprose to announce that the Board was "guilty of sending out illiterate reports of its own proceedings." In its published minutes he had found a split infinitive, a singular noun followed by a plural verb...
Cheered by 12,000 brownshirts in Berlin's vast Sportspalast, Governor Kube shouted: "Through the person of Adolf Hitler-whose mission is divine-every German has become more self-confident and valuable. It is wrong to speak in the plural of Nazi leaders. Our Nazi movement is monarchistic and knows only one leader-Adolf Hitler...
...issue of Sept. 26. in quotes you use plural of "stooge."' Just what is a stooge...
...advertise their universality. Actually, of course, the word derived from the French nouvellcs and is now construed as singular. It used to be a plural. Queen Victoria, for example, wrote: "The news from Austria are very...