Monday, 13 April 2009

NOTES :Transitive Verb And Direct Object - Split Infinitive

With transitive verbs (taking an object), adverbs may come after the object, but never between verb and object.

"He told the story rapidly." [Correct]
"He slowly told the story."[Correct]

"He told rapidly the story ." [Incorrect]
"He told slowly the story."[Incorrect]

Split Infinitive

to run quickly [OK]
to quickly run [ NOK - adverb is between the to and verb : Split case ]



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