Re: "To run is good exercise"?!

In article <Vtb9e.8584$e83.6620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tommi Nieminen <tommiDOTnieminen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

To hope is to live.
To steal again would violate his parole.
To be or not to be, that is the question.

Nathan

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Williams College http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders
Williamstown, MA 01267
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