Re: "To run is good exercise"?!
- From: Tommi Nieminen <tommiDOTnieminen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:44:01 +0300
Summarizing the findings so far (19-Jan 17:35 GMT), these counterexamples have been given:
(A) To err is human
(B) To provide a counterexample, - - To be honest, - - To bring that question up now - - To have lunch with you is - - To be rude - - To run all the way would - - To see one is to know one - - To be a nurse would - - To have a car - - To say that would be wrong
Strange but I see a pattern here. If the sentence-initial infinitive does not have a complement phrase(s) as all the examples in the B group, it has to be the subject of a predicative clause ending in an AP, as in the A "group".
Hey, that really was a glove that struck you! Now give counterexamples to counter this.
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