Its vs It's

What's wrong with this well-known phrase?

To boldly go where no man has gone before.​
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Glenn said:
What's wrong with this well-known phrase?

To boldly go where no man has gone before.​
:cool2:
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going to take guess! did they use it in star trek but had to change it to...
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Because it was not political correct?? :hmm:
 
Partygirl said:
going to take guess! did they use it in star trek but had to change it to...
To boldly go where no one has gone before.
Because it was not political correct?? :hmm:
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Good guess, but no. It's a split infinitive. The infinitive is "to go" and is split with "boldly."
 
What a grammar nightmare!

There is a split infinitive because there is an adverb between "to"and the verb "go." It should be "to go boldly."

The preposition "before" is at the end of the sentence, which is improper.

The word "where" is an adverb of location modifying the verb "go." Adverbs of location (and adverb phrases and clauses of location) usually belong at the *end* position of a clause. Generally, the proper order is: time; place; manner; and location. Here the adverb of location is in the middle of the clause and followed by a preposition indicating time. The preposition could be changed to an adverb of time for parallelism and the adverb of time should be moved before the adverb of location. Or, better yet, scrap "where" and "before" and describe the actual location (like "new frontiers").

The tenses shift. "Go" is present tense and "have gone" is past tense. This is faulty parallelism.

"Has gone" is passive voice, which is poor form. The active voice is correct.

Have I missed anything? I won't bother to try to rewrite it. It needs to be scraped entirely and replaced with a new sentence. Trekies will not be happy.
 
sallylou said:
What a grammar nightmare!

There is a split infinitive because there is an adverb between "to"and the verb "go." It should be "to go boldly."

The preposition "before" is at the end of the sentence, which is improper.

The word "where" is an adverb of location modifying the verb "go." Adverbs of location (and adverb phrases and clauses of location) usually belong at the *end* position of a clause. Generally, the proper order is: time; place; manner; and location. Here the adverb of location is in the middle of the clause and followed by a preposition indicating time. The preposition could be changed to an adverb of time for parallelism and the adverb of time should be moved before the adverb of location. Or, better yet, scrap "where" and "before" and describe the actual location (like "new frontiers").

The tenses shift. "Go" is present tense and "have gone" is past tense. This is faulty parallelism.

"Has gone" is passive voice, which is poor form. The active voice is correct.

Have I missed anything? I won't bother to try to rewrite it. It needs to be scraped entirely and replaced with a new sentence. Trekies will not be happy.
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You misspelled "trekies." :cool2:
 
Glenn said:
What's wrong with this well-known phrase?

To boldly go where no man has gone before.​
:cool2:
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Yup. How about "Space, the final frontier..." No it's not. A frontier is a border to another territory, so how can space be a frontier?

Thanks for the responses, but I will let this thread go, since my mind is overloading from it, lol.
 
aww shit the grammar nazis showed up again?
 
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