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ticed, certainly this can be so. In correcting a student’s theme, a teacher cannot condone errors in spelling and grammar, but there are ways of correcting a good paper without wounding the spirit that animates it.
A good many years ago, students of English composition learned that the parts of a verb should be kept reasonably together. Unlike the Germans, who do it their way, we do not write that we have a good dinner of beef and potatoes eaten.
We learn, therefore, that as a general rule we ought not to split infinitives. Very well. But now we are writing for The New York Times about the aborted nomination of Zoe! Baird to become attorney general.; We write, “The president and his advisers were wrestling with how to.‘ quietly urge her to withdraw.” Put; that abverb “quietly” anywhereelse, and both the cadence and the! meaning of the sentence are lost. ;
Writers ought frequently to recur to fundamentals. Granddaughter Jamie is not likely ever to play Rachmaninoffs Second Concerto with the Boston Symphony, but this is certain: She never on earth will play it if she doesn’t master the C scale first.
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