The phrase "we happily do" is one of the ones which gives me pause -- it feels like a split infinitive, but it isn't, and the cultural hammering about not splitting infinitives is so strong that it "feels wrong" (never mind that I have no actual objection to happily splitting infinitives, "to boldly go" has a different (and, I feel, stronger) meaning from "to go boldly", although dangling prepositions are things up with which I will not put).
We all have internalised different things which we dislike in sentence structure: some people dislike run-on sentences, nested parentheses, the Oxford comma (or lack thereof), and ellipsis...
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Date: 2008-11-23 08:33 am (UTC)We all have internalised different things which we dislike in sentence structure: some people dislike run-on sentences, nested parentheses, the Oxford comma (or lack thereof), and ellipsis...