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Not only that but I don't consider "moderate" to be a synonym for "tending to be moderate".


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There is a distinct shade of meaning missing if you make their suggested correction. As for the "conservative" example, that writer has fallen into the same trap I have fallen into on this board.

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Yet, I have learned time and time again, from all of you, that words have many different meanings Richards example of "set" comes to mind , and we must be aware of that. So, Bob, I agree with you. Do they feel there is something wrong with They are, in fact, aiming at overthrowing the present system?


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    Originally posted by arnie: No suggestion at all. Apart from the layout which I can'r duplicate here, it's quoted as written in the book. Perhaps are aiming being a single verb in Latin, they felt it should be unsplit, like the Latin infinitive. I've never heard of that stricture before; I don't think it's in Fowler.


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    • Yes, aput, and the real irony being that where Latin does have two words, it was a favorite trick of poets to split them up by inserting other words or whole phrases in between them. Especially with prepositions and the nouns they governed.

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