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From: Charles Gregory <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Infinitive phrase as adjective and as appositive


> I have a bit of trouble considering the comma marked version an appositive
> since I don't feel "To leave my job, my decision," is equivalent to "My
> decision, to leave my job . . ."
>
>
> Shouldn't that be: comma-marked version?  Isn't "comma marked" a compound
> adjective?
>
> Charles
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Infinitive phrase as adjective and as appositive
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> > ** Reply to note from Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar
> <[log in to unmask]>         Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:27:23 -0500
> >
> > Here's another take on those pesky infinitives:
> >
> > My decision which was for me to leave my job was a wise one.
> >
> > My decision, which was for me to leave my job, was a wise one.
> >
> > As you can see, I'm understanding these infinites as relative
> constructions which can
> > then be reduced (ellipts again, Michael) by (1) wh/be deletion and the
> for-to
> > transformation. We end up with
> >
> > my decision, to leave my job, was a wise one.
> > My decision to leave my job was a wise one.
> >
> > I have a bit of trouble considering the comma marked version an
appositive
> since I
> > don't feel "To leave my job, my decision," is equivalent to "My
decision,
> to leave my
> > job . . ." The first sounds like something a person would say when
trying
> to make it
> > clear he or she was not fired. The second does not carry that sense.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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