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Old 04-19-2004, 11:38 AM   #11
Bungleau
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Join Date: October 29, 2001
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Originally posted by uss:

Hmm, drew_jarvie, are you sure that 'To watch in amazement to march them into the mist' isn't correct English at all? It does seem very incorrect to me, but she speaks as if she's 100% sure that it is correct. Curious.
That is not a sentence, but a sentence fragment. IF you break it down...

"To watch" -- an infinitive serving as a noun
"in amazement" -- a prepositional phrase modifying "To watch"
"to march" -- another infinitive, also being used as a noun, but with no verb to link it or to do any action.
"them" -- a pronoun of some sort, probably an objective pronoun; it's the object, or recipient, of "to march"'s action.
"into the mist" -- another prepositional phrase, this one modifying "to march"

Now, if there were a comma in here...

'To watch in amazement, to march them into the mist'

it could be correct (at least as far as fragments go). It would become two separate things in a list, and that could fit in. It still wouldn't be a complete sentence, but it wouldn't be deserving of execution.
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