Re: "To run is good exercise"?!

martinphipps2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> It seems that non-native speakers of English in Taiwan do not realize
> that "To run is good exercise" is not a good English sentence. A
> collegue today even said it was grammatically correct. I don't think
> it is: I would never start a sentence with an infinitive. The one
> counterexample I can think of would be the song lyric "To know him is
> to love him" except here the sentence is in the form verb phrase = verb
> phrase and not the awkward verb phrase = noun phrase as in the previous
> example.

To provide a counterexample, I have composed this sentence.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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