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Old October 24, 2009, 04:45 AM
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Lightbulb Negarse en redondo

To negarse en redondo literraly to refuse in round, means that there´s not a single chance that he would change his mind.
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to categorically refuse
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to fully refuse
to completely refuse
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to categorically refuse
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to fully refuse
to completely refuse
I know I am in the minority here, but anybody learning British English should know that splitting the infinitive is not regarded as very good. (The infinitive in English is two words, and splitting the infinitive is to put an adverb between them, such as to categorically refuse). To me, this sounds terrible, and I would say to refuse categorically.
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hi perikles - i couldn't agree more, technically, on split infinitives.
i learned english grammar in the U.S., and recall clearly many teachers
making reference to "colloquially acceptable" usage and "correct English".
i always kept that in mind when writing essays in the high school/college years.

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Perikles, would you mind to explain to me what "splitting infinitive" means? Thanks I guess that that means to write something between "to" and the verb (because of the context, but that's all)
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Splitting infinitives is gramatically incorrect.
example:
to love is an infinitave
to freely love is a split infinitive (grammar teachers will tell you this is incorrect)
to love freely - is gramatically correct

There are some instances in which splitting the infinitive sounds better, and in those instances the gramatically correct method is harder to understand.
example: to fully disagree (sounds better but according to the gramatical law it's incorrect.
to disagree fully(but it sound wierd)
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right - north american usage takes lyrical license when it sounds better.

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Perikles, would you mind to explain to me what "splitting infinitive" means? Thanks I guess that that means to write something between "to" and the verb (because of the context, but that's all)
@Poli has explained it well. It does not really depend on the context, it is a general rule. The infinitive of any verb in English is two words, to love, to shoot, to fight, to think. The idea is that these two words may not be split, they must stay together. You may not put a word between 'to' and 'fight', so you may not say 'to bravely fight' (which sounds terrible to me!) but you have to say 'to fight bravely'

(P.S. would you mind to explain would you mind explaining )

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