Re: Digital Negatives & PT/PD / language & Grammar Police

[Dan Burkholder <fdanb@aol.com>]

Hey Judy,

OK, I'll give it a try. Isn't there an understood, "Please to let us to 
go then" in which the "to go" is the infinitive. And subjects of 
infinitives are in the objective case. The "you and I" (and I forget how 
to diagram the dang thing) refers to "us" (the subject of the 
infinitive) though I also forget the grammatical term for that.

You're a wizard at that stuff, Judy!

Dan

Judy Seigel wrote on 1/9/07, 4:07 PM:

 > And now a free gift... (a redundancy of course, a gift being by
 > definition
 > free, but ANOTHER example of how bad usage becomes normalized). I will
 > send a free copy of my non-Pulitzer prize winning book, postage paid, to
 > the first person who explains why Sullivan's example from TS Eliot,
 >
 > Let us go then, you and I,
 > When the evening is spread out against the sky
 > Like a patient etherised upon a table...


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